Tejanos

Noun

Tejano (countable and uncountable, plural Tejanos)

1. (historical) A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas.
   • But when Santa Anna’s forces invaded the renegade province, Seguín and other Tejano leaders joined the secessionists in proclaiming an independent Republic of Texas2011, Colin Woodard, chapter 19, in American nations, New York: Penguin, →ISBN
2. A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent.

   Synonyms:

   Texican, Tex-Mexican

3. (uncountable) Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.
   • Calderon points out as evidence an increase in Tejano record sales worldwide, and the meteoric rise of the young late Tejano recording artist, Selena Quintanilla-Perez.2000, David Maciel, Isidro D. Ortiz, María Herrera-Sobek, Chicano Renaissance: Contemporary Cultural Trends, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN

   Synonyms:

   Tex-Mex music, Tejano music