Los Texmaniacs
San Antonio, Texas
Tejano

Los TexManiacs, specializing in conjunto and Tejano music, is founded by Max Baca, one of the most talented bajo sexto players in music today. Baca’s career as a musician started in Albuquerque, New Mexico at the age of 5 when his father, Max Baca, Sr., a legendary accordionist in his own right, taught his son how to play the button accordion. He would later learn to play the guitar, drums, bass guitar and the bajo sexto, the twelve-stringed guitar-like instrument essential to the Tejano and conjunto sound. By the time he was 9, young Baca was playing bass guitar in his father’s band, Max Baca y Su Conjunto.  Baca is best known for his collaboration with groups such as Flaco Jimenez y Su Conjunto, Flaco Jimenez and the Texas Tornados, Los Hermanos Baca, Aztex and Los Super Seven. He has toured nationally and internationally with Jimenez, his mentor, as well as with what Country Music Television called the “ultimate Tex-Mex supergroup,” the Texas Tornados.  He has recorded with the Rolling Stones and participated in three Grammy-winning albums.

At the age of 8, David Farias began playing in a band with his brothers.  By the time he was 13 years old, he was fronting the band as accordion player and lead singer.  Over the years, the down home family band Los Hermanos Farias evolved into La Tropa F, a popular Tejano band.  Farias was nominated for a Latin Grammy in 2004 and 2005.

Israel Villanueva (aka Speedy Vee) was born in Snyder, Texas, a small West Texas community town where he played bass guitar with his father’s conjunto band  After a move to Houston he became a founding member of the well-known Tejano band, La Mafia, and is a veteran of the conjunto and Tejano music scene.

The group’s first CD, A Tex Mex Groove, hosts a line-up of strong guest artists, including Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers, Ruben Ramos and members of Los Lobos. Los TexManiacs recently completed an overseas tour performing for U. S. military troops in Afghanistan, previously they had done a performance tour for troops based in Iraq and Kuwait.

Links

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