Name Lorenzo Martinez Role Musician | Music group Los Texmaniacs | |
Education University of California, Los Angeles Albums Borders Y Bailes, Texas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds, Americano Groove People also search for Max Baca, David Farias, Oscar Garcia | ||
Lorenzo Martinez is an American musician who won the Grammy Award for the Best Tejano Album in 2009, for his work with Los Texmaniacs on Borders Y Bailes.
He grew up in southeast Los Angeles and "took up the vihuela guitar and the guitarrón acoustic bass and began playing Mexican music. He studied mariachi at UCLA with Natividad Cano of Mariachi los Camperos. At the same time, he started playing Texan-style orquesta tejana and rhythm and blues in East Los Angeles." Lorenzo was a core member of Los Rock Angels and currently performs with Los Texmaniacs in San Antonio, Texas, and Conjunto Los Pochos in Los Angeles, California.
Songs
Por una mujer casadaTexas Towns & Tex-Mex Sounds · 2012
Huapango - huapangoBorders Y Bailes · 2009
How Can a Beautiful Woman Be so UglyAmericano Groove · 2015