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Article: De La Rosa
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- July 28, 2000
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De La Rosa, accordionist and tavern owner, pioneered Tejano music
here
By JESSE GARZA
of the Journal Sentinel staff
Friday, July 28, 2000
The joy that tavern owner Santos De La Rosa squeezed out of the
accordion for more than 70 years came not so much from the instrument
itself as it did from his heart.
That heart beat for almost five years after the "godfather of
Tejano music in Milwaukee" shunned conventional treatment for liver
cancer after doctors gave him only weeks to live.
It beat in his devotion to his clientele at Club De La Rosa, 226
W. Mineral St., where menudo -- beef tripe soup -- was a Sunday
ritual. And it continued to beat through the hundreds of songs he
sang, played and ...