15 Corridos De Caballos

Los Donneños were a 1950s Mexican Norteño guitar, accordion and song duo formed by Ramiro Cavazos and Mario Montes and named after Donna, Texas.Ramiro Cavazos was lead singer and played guitar or bajo sexto.Mario Montes was second voice and played accordion.On some recordings they were joined by a string bass player, Rafael Gaspar. 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 & 1980s Ramiro Cavazos had a record store on South 23rd Street in McAllen, Texas.

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