Juan Tejeda

Robert Elizalde

April 20, 2008

Humanities

Juan Tejeda

Juan Tejeda is a musician that has his own band. I think it is great for someone to have there own band. It takes real charisma and talent. I really like music and can not live with out it. Is it like it is part of me and I think that Juan Tejeda is probably the same way. Juan Tejeda is a Mexican-American and is now a Chicano but he calls it Xicano. I thought that was really funny and creative. I means the Indians who lived the Americans before anybody. This first includes the tribes such as the Nahuati and the Aztecs. Juan Tejeda does Conjunto music. Conjunto is a mix between German and Mexican style music. It is mostly popular with the Mexican people though. This music comes from the history of the working class music. Juan Tejeda was telling us the history all about his race and Conjunto music. He said there are only three different races. The races can be described as Mexican, Latinos, Hispanic, and even Americans. In all I think that Juan Tejeda is a great composer and I am glad that we had him speak here in class. I really enjoyed his presence and his music most of all.