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This Week in Texas Music History: Emilio Navaira

From: KUT
Series: This Week in Texas Music History
Length: 01:40

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Emilionavaira_320x240_12635 For the fourth week of August (8/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who blended conjunto and country to become the king of tejano.

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