Proving an immediate success, Introducing Johnny Rodriguez was nominated for the prestigious Album of the Year award at the subsequent Academy of Country Music Awards. 1973 saw the release of two ...

Infusing Spanish language and Latin influence into his music, his debut album "Introducing Johnny Rodriguez" was nominated for album of the year at the 1974 Academy of Country Music Awards.

Johnny Rodriguez, a trailblazer in country music and the first major Mexican American artist in the genre, died on Friday at the age of 73. His daughter, Aubry Rodriguez, confirmed the news on ...

Rodriguez’s 1973 debut album, “Introducing Johnny Rodriguez,” topped Billboard‘s Top Country Albums chart. It was also nominated for album of the year at the Academy of Country Music Awards.

The next year, he released “Introducing Johnny Rodriguez,” which topped the country album chart. In recent years, Mr. Rodriguez was at work on a new album featuring collaborations with actor ...

On Monday (May 12), he shared a remembrance of Johnny Rodriguez, a country legend who died last week at the age of 73. In the 1970s, he rose to fame as one of country music's first Hispanic stars ...

Rodriguez soon signed to Mercury and released his debut, “Introducing Johnny Rodriguez,” in 1973. That album featured his ... Frizzell (Rodriguez sent a cover of Frizzell’s “That’s ...

Rodriguez's debut album, Introducing Johnny Rodriguez, became a No. 1 album on Billboard's Top Country Albums chart in 1973. That same year, he received the most promising vocalist honor at the ...

Rodriguez’s debut album, “Introducing Johnny Rodriguez,” was nominated for album of the year in 1973, after he was named the most promising male vocalist at the Academy of Country Music ...