Johnny Rodriguez, the pioneering singer-songwriter widely regarded as the first Mexican ... the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and received the Institute of Hispanic Culture’s Pioneer Award ...

The first popular Mexican American ... he received the Pioneer Award from the Institute of Hispanic Culture, and in 2019 he was given the Living Legend Award from the Country Music Association ...

Johnny Rodriguez, a trailblazing Mexican American ... was inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame and in 2010 received the Institute of Hispanic Culture Pioneer Award, honoring his ...

A country music pioneer who racked up several chart-topping ... From growing up 90 miles from the Mexican border, Rodriguez’s musical influences ranged from mariachi to honky-tonk to traditional ...

He was 73 years old. Rodriguez was one of the first Mexican American country singers and had such hits as “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico" and “That’s ...

Country music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican American singer best known for chart-topping hits in the 1970s such as “I Just Can’t Get Her Out of My Mind,” “Ridin’ My Thumb to ...

Johnny Rodriguez, the first major Mexican ... music pioneer, Freddy Fender, put out his breakthrough hit “Before the Next Teardrop Falls,” it became the first of six No. 1 country hits for ...

Mexican American Singer Johnny Rodriguez, Whose 1970s Country Hits Topped Charts, Dies at 73 SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Country music star Johnny Rodriguez, a popular Mexican American singer best known ...

Texas native Johnny Rodriguez, a Mexican-American ... inducted into the Texas Country Music Hall of Fame. In 2010, he received the Institute of Hispanic Culture Pioneer Award, honoring his decades ...