Episode 22 - Tejana Singer, Songwriter, Film Writer, Actor and Dancer - Patricia Vonne Artwork

Who Should I be Talking To?

I'm a former professional hockey trainer turned professional country music singer and I've picked four people to interview from 3 different areas in my life (personal, sport, and music) that I think most people will find interesting, inspirational, and motivating. The interviews of these four initial people showcase many of the inspiring experiences, successes, and advice that they have for the listener. In turn, I ask each of my guests to recommend a single person that they feel have a story that needs to be told... that the world needs to hear from ....someone that I need to be talking to. Each guest will be connected to the last by the final question of "Who should I be talking to?" and we will see if there truly are six degrees of separation if and when they all intertwine as the episodes reveal themselves.

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Episode 22 - Tejana Singer, Songwriter, Film Writer, Actor and Dancer - Patricia Vonne

August 08, 2022 • Jason Price

Patricia Vonne:
Here’s Patricia's newest animation from her Christmas album - it's the duet w Rubén Blades. It was nominated for Best Animation in July at the Madrid International Film Festival. Enjoy!!

Las Posadas :

“ https://youtu.be/Mk46ALQGW3U

Check out the music video link to “Santa’s on a Rampage” that Patricia wrote with my previous guest Rosie Flores. It was shot entirely on an iPhone!!

Patricia's producer Rick is also in this video, Thommy Price on drums (Billy Idol) Rowland Salley on bass from Chris Isaak’s band. Amazing how everything comes full circle from a move to New York!!

https://youtu.be/jMZdWFVd0QE

DISCOGRAPHY BIO:
San Antonio, Texas has always been the musical and cultural crossroads of the Lone Star State. It’s the blurry line of demarcation between Texas’ modern Anglo-centric history and its centuries-old Latino past. Music collides in San Antonio, with rock, country, Tejano, punk, Tex-Mex pop, blues and horn-driven mariachi and norteño bumping into one another like boxcars on a freight train. San Antonio native son and musical godfather Doug Sahm once sang, “You just can’t live in Texas if you don’t have a lot of soul.” That goes double for the Alamo City.

Patricia Vonne is a product of that cultural menudo, if you will. As one of ten wildly creative offspring (including her older brother, film director Robert Rodriguez) growing up in the historic Monte Vista section of San Antonio, she and her siblings were encouraged to find their own creative paths. Her father, a native of the Rio Grande Valley, came to San Antonio on a musical scholarship. Her mother, of Spanish descent, played guitar and sang Old World folksongs for her kids. On weekends, the family would attend matinee performances of classic films and MGM musicals. Vonne absorbed those influences and melded them with a passion for rock ‘n’ roll born of her first exposure to Fort Worth rocker Johnny Reno and his band, the Sax Maniacs.

“Growing up as a Tejana, I listened to the diverse music of San Antonio—country, rock, jazz, pop, conjunto and Tejano styles,” she recalled. “When I started writing my own music, which is also a hybrid mix of sound and flavors, I felt a need to preserve and honor the rich cultural heritage of my upbringing.”

Beginning in 1990, she spent a decade in New York City pursuing music and acting, career moves which went on to inform her riveting onstage persona. While in the city, she answered a want-ad for a backup singer for a local band. After building a following in the New York area, singing and playing bass with Mick & the Maelstroms, and meeting longtime musical partner Robert LaRoche, she began writing her own material and concocting her own ensemble in 1998.

New York toughened her up, she said. “It sharpened my survival instincts while also teaching me patience, tenacity and resilience.”

Vonne felt comfortable exploring her own hybrid musical territory, but not everyone got the picture. “I have a vision for my music,” she said years later. “In New York, I would sit down with these CEOs of these record companies who would say, ‘We can make you the Mexican Celine Dion.’ I love Celine Dion but I want to be Patricia Vonne."

Vonne moved back to Texas in 2001, but not back to her hometown. Rather, she relocat

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