Los Palominos are a tejano group from Uvalde, Texas

Uvalde, Texas

Uvalde is a city in and the county seat of Uvalde County, Texas, United States. The population was 14,929 at the 2000 census.Uvalde was founded by Reading Wood Black in 1853 as the town of Encina. In 1856, when the county was organized, the town was renamed Uvalde for Spanish governor Juan de...

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Los Palominos were formed in 1986 by four brothers under the name Los Tremendos Pequeños. Their repertory includes polka

Polka

The polka is a Central European dance and also a genre of dance music familiar throughout Europe and the Americas. It originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia...

, ranchera

Ranchera

Ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico originally sung by only one performer with a guitar. It dates to the years of the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. It later became closely associated with the mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco. Ranchera today is also played...

s, bolero

Bolero

Bolero is a form of slow-tempo Latin music and its associated dance and song. There are Spanish and Cuban forms which are both significant and which have separate origins.The term is also used for some art music...

s, ballads, and cumbia

Cumbia

Cumbia is a music genre popular across Latin America. The cumbia originated in the Caribbean coast of Colombia, where it is associated with an eponymous dance and has since spread as far as Mexico and Argentina...

s. They signed with Sony Discos in 1994 after meeting with Armando Lichtenberger and Oscar de la Rosa of La Mafia

La Mafia

La Mafia is a four-time Grammy Award-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas and has charted a course as a Latin music band.- History :...

. Their 1994 release Corazon de Cristal was a hit in the U.S. and Mexico, and have released a steady stream of hit records well into the 2000s.

Current members

• Johnny Arreola - accordion, vocals
• James Arreola - bajo sexto
  Bajo sexto
  A bajo sexto is a musical instrument with 12 strings in 6 double courses, used in Mexican music. It is used primarily in norteño music of northern Mexico and across the border in the music of south Texas known as "Tex-Mex", "conjunto, or "música mexicana-tejana".A similar instrument with five...
  
  , vocals
• Julio Arreola - drums
• Jorge Arreola - bass

Past members

• Jesse Arreola - drums (died on February 4, 2001, in Port Lavaca, TX. Jesse was ejected from the tour bus then hit by it.)

Discography

• Del Norte Al Sur (1992)
• Entre la Espada y la Pared (1993)
• Corazon de Cristal (1994)
• El Ganador (1995)
• Duele de Amor (1996)
• Arco Iris de Papel (1997)
• Te Sequire (1998)
• Por Eso Te Amo (1999)
• Para Ti (2000)
• Obsesion (2001)
• Un Poco Mas (2002)
• Tocame (2003)
• Canciones de la Rockola (2003)
• Atrevete (2005)
• Evoluciones (2006)
• Me Enamore de un Angel (2008)
• Rockola 2 (2009)

Awards

The group won both a Grammy award

Grammy Award

A Grammy Award — or Grammy — is an accolade by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry...

 and a Latin Grammy for best Tejano album, for 1999's Por Eso Te Amo, and a Latin Grammy for best Tejano album for 2006's Evoluciones.