Sunday is Onda Chicano, but I jumped the gun this week, so music is enjoyable in Spanish and English. The easiest genre to jump to from the Tejano sound is country music. The same subject matter: drinking, women, heartaches, macho, and both able to be danced with a woman in your arms, none of the jumping around or moving el colu.
Don’t have to speak Spanish to sing in Spanish. Selena did not speak Spanish when she started her Tejano music career. Garth Brook singing “El Rey”.
Following is Tim McGraw singing in Spanish:
WITH AN ESTIMATED 50 million native and second-language speakers in the United States, Spanish is the country’s second-most-spoken language. Music, however, being a universal language, country superstar Tim McGraw has combined the two with his Spanish-language performance of the Grammy-winning “Humble and Kind.”
Written by Lori McKenna, the inspirational tune was adapted into Spanish under the title “Nunca Te Olvides De Amar” – which literally translates to “Never Forget to Love” – by Argentine singer-songwriter Claudia Brant. McGraw appears in a modified version of the song’s original video, directed by Wes Edwards and featuring scenes from the Oprah Winfrey documentary, Belief.