Johnny Rodriguez

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Sabinal, Texas, USA

Johnny Rodriguez is an American country music singer. He is a Latin American country music singer, infusing his music with Latin sounds, and even singing verses of songs in Spanish. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was one of country music's most successful male artists, recording a string of hit songs, such as "You Always Come Back to Hurting Me," "Desperado," "Down on the Rio Grande" and "Foolin'."…

Known for

• Opry Video Classics: Honky-Tonk Heroes — Self (archive footage)2007
• Nashville Girl — Himself1976
• Austin City Limits — Self1975
• Dinah! — Self1974
• That Good Old Nashville Music — Self1971

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1951-12-10

Active to

2025-05-09

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Listeners

44,428

Total plays

281,312

Johnny Rodriguez (born Juan Raoul Davis Rodriguez on 10 December 1951; died 9 May 2025) was an American Tejano and Texas country music singer remembered for infusing his music with Latin sounds, including singing verses of songs in Spanish. He was the first charting Latin American country music singer Rodriguez got his break after being discovered by Bobby Bare and parlayed that into a gig playing in Tom T. Hall's backing band. By the early 1970s he had moved on from being Hall's "secretary" of

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Johnny

Family name

Rodríguez

Gender

male

Citizenship

United States

Place of birth

Sabinal

Place of death

Corpus Christi

Occupation

songwriter

Languages spoken

English language

Genre

country music

Instrument

voice

Record label

Epic Records

Official website

johnnyrodriguezmusic.com/shows.html

Image

Johnny Rodriguez press photo--1976.jpg

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