Ramiro cavazos biography

Cavazos earned his Master's Degree in Public Administration from St. Mary's University, where he received the honor of Distinguished Alumnus, and his Bachelor's Degree in Government from the University of Texas at Austin.
Cavazos was born and raised in Weslaco and is a 7th generation Texan.
Mexican-born guitar and bajo sexto player, singer (Los Ramones, Nuevo Leon, 16 Feb. 1927), also appears as Ramiro Cavazos Gutiérrez, he created the duo Los.

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Los Donneños

Los Donneños were a 1950s Mexican Norteño duo formed by Ramiro Cavazos and Mario Montes and named after Donna, Texas.^[1] Ramiro Cavazos was the lead singer and played the bajo sexto, while Mario Montes was second voice and played the accordion. On some recordings they were joined by a string bass player, Rafael Gaspar.

Formation

Cavazos met Montes while working as a migrant laborer near Donna, Texas. They had been acquainted through their manual labor, but joined forces musically after Cavazos noticed Montes playing music by the side of the road. They formed a duet named after the Texas town, and continued to work as migrant laborers even after making records for Falcon Records and developing a following that spanned both sides of the United States-Mexican border. In the 1970s and 1980s Ramiro Cavazos had a record store on South 23rd Street in McAllen, Texas.^[2]

Later years

Montes died on 28 January 1993 and Cavazos continued performing with other musicians. In 2010, Cavazos participated in a recording that brought togethe

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Strachwitz Frontera Collection

Los Donneños, a duet formed in the late 1940s in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas, were pioneers in the evolution of norteño music during the 1950s. They went on to become one of the first Tex-Mex acts to find major success on both sides of the border.

The historic duet was formed by two musicians, Ramiro Cavazos on guitar and Mario Montes on accordion. They both hailed from the Mexican border state of Nuevo Leon, but they met only after moving to the U.S. side of the Rio Grande.

Cavazos was born in 1927 in Garza Ayala, a rural community on the road between Monterrey, Mexico, and Laredo, Texas. Montes was born four years earlier in General Terán, southwest of Monterrey, home to another famed norteño group from the same period, Los Alegres de Terán, Tomás Ortiz and Eugenio Abrego. In fact, in the early years of both acts, Cavazos performed with Los Alegres and actually recorded with them on several 78s for the Orfeo label, billing themselves as Ortiz y Cavazos con el Dueto Abrego.

Cavazos and Montes immigrat

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Ramiro A. Cavazos

As a passionate advocate for small business, Ramiro draws inspiration from his own experience as a public affairs entrepreneur, having served esteemed clients such as AT&T, Valero Energy and H-E-B. His career in public service has been marked by notable roles, including Director for the Edward’s Aquifer Authority, Alamo Regional Mobility Authority, work as a special assistant to former U.S. Senator and U.S. Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, city administrator and as legislative researcher for State Representative Irma Rangel, the first Hispanic woman elected to the Texas Legislature.

Cavazos is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, was awarded the Royal Order of Isabella the Catholic, a knighthood bestowed by King Felipe VI to recognize his extraordinary service to the Kingdom of Spain and been recognized as one of the “101 Most Influential Latinos” in America for the 7th consecutive year. Ramiro is immediate past Chairman of the Hispanic Association on Corporate Responsibility, is Vice Chairman of the National Hispanic Leadership Agenda, a