Beto Villa (

Falfurrias Falfurrias ( ) is a city in and the county seat of Brooks County, Texas. Its population was 4,981 at the 2010 census, in a county that in the same census was just over 7,000. The town is named for founder Edward Cunningham Lasater's ranch, La Mot ...

, Texas, October 26, 1915 – 1986) was a Texan

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and considered, alongside Isidro López, the father of the orquesta Tejana.Guadalupe San Miguel - '' Tejano Proud: Tex-Mex Music in the Twentieth Century''. 2002 1585441880 Page 47 "The two indisputable kings of orquesta Tejana, Beto Villa and Isidro Lopez, for instance, emphasized the new sound of the saxophone in the orquesta.44 Occasionally a small piano or an accordion was used as the key melody instrument

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1915 births 1986 deaths American musicians of Mexican descent {{US-musician-stub