Tejano

noun3

1. •
   A Texan (especially male) of Mexican descent.
2. •
   (historical) A Spanish colonial settler of the region that later became Texas.

   • But when Santa Anna’s forces invaded the renegade province, Seguín and other Tejano leaders joined the secessionists in proclaiming an independent Republic of Texas — 2011
3. •
   Various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Mexican-American populations of Central and Southern Texas.

   • Calderon points out as evidence an increase in Tejano record sales worldwide, and the meteoric rise of the young late Tejano recording artist, Selena Quintanilla-Perez. — 2000