Selena The Series: What Happened To Johnny Canales, The Presenter Who Helped Selena Quintanilla Become The Queen Of Tex Mex | The Johnny Canales Show | FAME

Despite the criticism it received from an industry of its followers Selena quintanillaSelena: The seriesBecame a television phenomenon in Netflix, alongside an exercise to discuss the history of the ‘Queen of Tex Mex,’ whose musical legacy continues to this day.

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No doubt, Selena quintanilla has left an indelible mark on music history. Despite her early death, the singer is considered an icon of Latin music and her songs still resonate more than 20 years later, including “Como la flor”, “El chico del piso 512” and “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”.

In this context “Selena: The series“Follows the artist’s story since she was a child, and in the third chapter recreates the first presentation of Selena and the Dinos on” The Johnny Canales Show, “when she was just starting her career. A few years later, better known and with Having received a Tejano Music Awards, the “Besitos” interpreter appeared on the show again, during a recording in Matamoros, Mexico.

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The person who was responsible for running the program Johnny Canales, who was known in the tex-mex industry and invited singers or groups to make themselves known to his production. Next, we’ll tell you who the TV host that appears in is “Selena, the series”

Johnny Canales is featured in “Selena, the series” as a host. Canales is known to have a love for music from an early age, so as a child he accompanied his father to bars in General Treviño, a town in Nuevo León where he performed.

He later moved to the United States where he was part of the military at the same time as he formed the group Johnny Canales and his Orquestra. However, in 1977 he became a DJ at a Corpus Christi radio station.

A year later, Johnny Canales was invited to host a television program, “The Johnny Canales Show,” which featured artists from the Texas genre, among others. The program was already a success in the 1980s and became one of the most watched programs in the United States, despite the fact that the content was in Spanish.

Johnny Canales’ program aired from 1983 to 1996 and featured such groups as Los Tigres del Norte, La Mafia, Intocable, La Sombra de Chicago, La Sonora Dinamita and many others.

The first time Selena and the Dinos appeared on the Johnny Canales show was when the singer was only 13 years old. However, years later, in 1986, the Queen of Tex-Mex and the hit TV host met again when she traveled to Matamoros, Mexico to record “The Johnny Canales Show,” as we see it in the series.

This was a very important moment for the career of Selena and the Dinos, but it also meant a lot to Johnny Canales as it was the first time an American production was recorded in Mexico with a live audience.

1994 was the last time Selena guest attended the Johnny Canales program, the year she was murdered by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club.