Selena Series: What Happened to Johnny Canales, the presenter who helped Selena Quintanilla become Tex Mex Queen | Johnny Canales Show | REPUTATION

Despite the criticism he received from a section of followers Selena quintanilla, „Selena: The series“It simply came to our notice then Netflix, in addition to an exercise in reviewing the history of the “Queen of Tex Mex”, whose musical heritage remains in force to this day.

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Undoubtedly, Selena quintanilla left an indelible mark on the history of music. Despite her early death, the singer is considered an icon of Latin music and her songs still resonate over 20 years later, including “Como la flor”, “El chico del piso 512” and “Bidi Bidi Bom Bom”.

In this context, “Selena: The seriesHe follows the artist’s story since childhood and in its third chapter, he recreates the first presentation of Selena and the Dinos at “The Johnny Canales Show”, when he was just starting his career. A few years later, better known and with a Tejano Music Awards under her belt, the singer “Besitos” reappeared in the show, during a recording in Matamoros, Mexico.

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The person in charge of running the program was Johnny Canales, who was well known in the Tex-Mex industry and invited singers or groups to his production to make themselves known. Next, we will tell you who is the TV host that appears in “Selena, the series”.

Johnny Canales is featured in “Selena, the series” as the host. It is known that Canales had a taste for music from an early age, so when he was a child, he accompanied his father to bars in General Treviño, a town in Nuevo León where he sang.

He later moved to the United States where he was part of the army at the same time as he formed the group Johnny Canales and his Orchestra. 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, among others, Texan artists. By the 1980s, the program was already a success and became one of the most watched in the United States, despite the fact that its content was in Spanish.

Johnny Canales’ program was broadcast between 1983 and 1996, with groups such as Los Tigres del Norte, La Mafia, Intocable, La Sombra de Chicago, La Sonora Dinamita, among many others.

The first time Selena and Dinos appeared in the Johnny Canales show was when the singer was only 13 years old. However, years later, in 1986, Queen Tex-Mex and the popular 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 Dinos, but it also meant a lot for Johnny Canales, because it was the first time that an American production was recorded in Mexico with a live audience.

1994 was the last time Selena participated in the Johnny Canales program as a guest, the year she was assassinated by Yolanda Saldívar, the president of her fan club.