Laredo, Texas

Everything Laredo is known for

32 songs mention this city 25 artists from here

Laredo, Texas, a vibrant border city on the Rio Grande, boasts a rich cultural heritage with a dynamic music scene. The city has been home to 25 artists and is mentioned in 39 songs, reflecting its enduring presence in music. Artists such as Adrian Quesada and Poncho Sanchez, known for their Latin music, hail from Laredo. The city's name also appears in well-known songs like "Streets of Laredo" by Marty Robbins and "Laredo" by Leon Bridges.

Music in Laredo

Songs About Laredo

New Year’s Day
Charlie Robison
98%
"Went down Camino Espinoza, gonna get me a divorce"
Bend but Don’t Break
No Justice
90%
"Heading for Loredo that's the way wind blew"
Nuevo Laredo
sir douglas quintet
90%
Somewhere Over Laredo
Lainey Wilson
80%
"Somewhere over Laredo"
Streets of Laredo
Marty Robbins
80%
"As I walked out in the streets of Laredo"
Laredo
Band of Horses
80%
"Song about Laredo"
Laredo
Leon Bridges
80%
"Song about Laredo"
Laredo
Angie K
80%
"Song about Laredo"
Laredo
Chris Cagle
78%
"Oh, Laredo, don't let her go"
streets of laredo
mary kaye
78%
Ay te dejo en San Antonio
Flaco Jiménez
55%
"Y en Laredo ya tenias otros dos"
Love from Lufkin
Rita Bliss
55%
"I'm sending you the moonlight from Laredo"
Letter to Laredo
Joe Ely
55%
Big Gangsta
Kevin Gates
52%
"I shot to Laredo to do it big"
Just Across The Rio Grande
Reba McEntire
51%
"The lights of Laredo dance on the water"
California
Robert Ellis
51%
"From Louisiana to Laredo"
Me And Paul
Doug Sahm
51%
"Almost busted in Laredo but for reasons"
Un Mojado Sin Licencia
Flaco Jiménez
45%
"Desde Laredo a San Antonio yo he venido a casarme con mi Chencha"
South of the Border in Laredo
Adolph Hofner
45%
Clear Isabel
Aaron Watson
40%
"The grass is greener just beyond that Laredo border line"

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Artists From Laredo

A
Adrian Quesada
latin Pop: 45
P
Poncho Sanchez
latin Pop: 42
F
Full Contact
metal Pop: 33
P
Pete Astudillo
latin Pop: 28
A
Adversor
metal Pop: 26
T
The Maples
indie Pop: 25
R
René y René
latin Pop: 25
L
LOUIEJAYXX
hip-hop Pop: 24
T
Thisistoodifficult
indie Pop: 23
V
Venereal Baptism
metal Pop: 22
R
René Barbera
classical Pop: 15
B
Bo Depena
latin Pop: 14
B
Beto Martinez
latin Pop: 13
M
Miles Zuniga
rock Pop: 13
K
Kix Garcia
latin Pop: 12
E
Eduard Laurel
latin Pop: 11
S
Seven Perfect
indie Pop: 10
N
Necrovision
metal Pop: 9
S
Sonja de la Paz
latin Pop: 8
T
The Reen
indie Pop: 1

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Rivers & Roads in Song near Laredo

Songs written about the waterways and highways that run near Laredo.

U.S. Route 59 3 songs Interstate 35 27 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 83 songs Rio Grande / Río Bravo 144 songs

History of Laredo

Laredo Air Force Base

1940

During World War I, Kelly Field (San Antonio), reached its peak training capacity and the U.S. Army built several auxiliary landing fields in South Texas, including one in Laredo north of Fort McIntosh. In 1940, as the nation faced another war, the city of Laredo hired local contractor H.B. Zachry to build an airport to replace the landing strip. The city named the airport Zachry Field in honor of H.B.'s father, U.S. Army colonel John Zachry. In 1941, local leaders persuaded U.S. senator Morris Sheppard, chairman of the Senate Military Affairs Committee, to petition for a wartime training facility in Laredo. On May 7, 1942, the U.S. Military acquired Zachry Field, expanding the site to more than 2,085 acres, with an additional 685,000 acres of aerial target ranges northwest toward Eagle Pass ad 35,000 acres north of the city for ground target practice. In 1944, Laredo Army Air Field Flexible Gunnery School reached its peak capacity with more than 15,000 personnel and 250 aircraft. Airmen here trained in gunnery instruction and airplane and turret mechanics for medium and heavy bombers. While Women Airforce Service pilots flew engineering tests. In late 1945, the field became inactive and the land transferred to the War Assets Administration. In 1952, during the Korean War, the site reactivated as Laredo Air Force Base, providing basic training for cadets from the U.S. Air Force and 24 North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries. The base continued in operation until 1973, when the military declared the facility excess and deactivated the command. The site reopened in 1975 as Laredo International Airport, continuing its long association with aviation history in the area. (2007)

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Barkley, David Bennes

1918

David Bennes Barkley, Medal of Honor recipient, was born, probably in 1899, to Josef and Antonia (Cantú) Barkley in Laredo, Texas. When the United States entered World War I , Barkley enlisted as a private in the United States Army. Family records indicate he did not want to be known as of Mexican descent, for fear he would not see action at the front. He was assigned to Company A, 356th Infantry, Eighty-ninth Division. In France he was given the mission of swimming the Meuse River near Pouilly, in order to infiltrate German lines and gather information about the strength and deployment of German formations. Despite enemy resistance to any allied crossing of the Meuse, Barkley and another volunteer accomplished the mission. While returning with the information, Barkley developed cramps and drowned, on November 9, 1918, just two days before the armistice went into effect. His sacrifice earned praise from Gen. John J. Pershing , the commander of the American Expeditionary Force. Barkley was one of three Texans awarded the nation's highest military honor, the Congressional Medal of Honor, for service in World War I. He was also awarded the Croix de Guerre (France) and the Croce Merito (Italy). In 1921 an elementary school in San Antonio was named for him. He lay in state at the Alamo , the second person to be so honored. He was buried at San Antonio National Cemetery. On January 10, 1941, the War Department named Camp Barkeley for the Texas hero.

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Benavides, Santos

1861

Santos Benavides, the highest ranking Mexican American to serve the Confederacy, the son of José Jesús and Margarita (Ramón) Benavides, was born in Laredo, Texas, on November 1, 1823. He was the great-great-grandson of Tomás Sánchez de la Barrera y Garza , the founder of Laredo. Benavides married Agustina Villareal in 1842, and the couple eventually adopted four children. As a political and military leader in Laredo, Benavides brought a traditionally isolated region closer to the mainstream of Texas politics while preserving a sense of local independence. His prominence in Laredo resulted initially from the influence of his uncle, Basilio Benavides , who was three times elected alcalde under Mexican rule, then mayor and state representative after annexation . Santos Benavides's success as a merchant and rancher also contributed to his selection as procurador in 1843, then to his election as mayor of Laredo in 1856 and chief justice of Webb County in 1859. He won further distinction as the leader of several campaigns against the Lipan Apaches and other Indians. Under both Mexican and American rule, his politics remained consistent. During the Federalist-Centralist wars that swept the Rio Grande frontier in the 1830s and 1840s, geographically isolated northern Mexico supported the Federalist cause of local autonomy against the Centralists, who wanted power focused in distant Mexico City. As a young man Benavides fought for the Federalists. Frustrated with the Mexican government, he cooperated with the forces of Mirabeau B. Lamar , which occupied Laredo during the Mexican War . Benavides joined his uncle in opposing the annexation of the Laredo area by the United States, as called for by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo , because he feared it would compromise the independent character of northern Mexico. When Texas seceded, Benavides and his brothers supported the Confederacy, whose states'-rights principles were so close to their regionalism. Commissioned a captain in the Thirty-third Texas Cavalry (or Benavides' Regiment) and assigned to the Rio Grande Military District, Benavides quickly won accolades as a fighter. He drove Juan Cortina back into Mexico in the battle of Carrizo on May 22, 1861, and quelled other local revolts against Confederate authority. In November 1863 Benavides was promoted to colonel and authorized to raise his own regiment of "Partisan Rangers," for which he used the remnants of the Thirty-third. His greatest military triumph was his defense of Laredo on March 19, 1864, with forty-two troops against 200 soldiers of the Union First Texas Cavalry , commanded by Col. Edmund J. Davis , who had, ironically, offered Benavides a Union generalship earlier. Perhaps Benavides's most significant contribution to the South came when he arranged for safe passage of Texas cotton along the Rio Grande to Matamoros during the Union occupation of Brownsville in 1864. During Reconstruction he continued his mercantile and ranching activities with his brother Cristóbal Benavides and remained active in politics. In support of his son-in-law, Gen. Lázaro Garza Ayala, and Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, he was accused of using his rancho, Charcos Largo, as a supply depot for filibustering expeditions against Mexican president Porfirio Díaz. He served three times in the Texas legislature from 1879 to 1884 and twice as an alderman of Laredo. He was instrumental in the formation of the Guarache or citizen's party in South Texas, a faction of the Democratic party opposed to the powerful Botas ( see BOTAS AND GUARACHES ). His political affiliations indicated his continued belief in regional independence from national authority. His leadership built Democratic support among Hispanics in Webb County and contributed to the eclipse of the Republican party in the region. Benavides's friendship with the followers of Benito Juárez and his kinship ties to Manuel Gonzales prompted Porfirio Díaz to select him as an envoy to the United States during

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Cigarroa, Joaquin Gonzalez, Jr.

1954

Joaquin Gonzalez Cigarroa, Jr., physician, humanitarian, education advocate, and civic leader, was born in San Antonio, Texas, on May 5, 1924, to Dr. Joaquin Gonzalez Cigarroa, Sr., and Josefina Gonzalez de la Vega. During his childhood, his family moved to Laredo where he, his sister Rebeca, and brother Leonides attended public schools. As a young boy, Joaquin Jr. had a calling to be a doctor and accompanied his father on house calls. With a career in medicine in mind, he dedicated himself to his studies and graduated from Martin High School as valedictorian in 1941. He attended the University of Texas at Austin and then at the age of twenty-three graduated with honors from Harvard Medical School in 1947. He subsequently completed internships at the University of Chicago and the former Boston City Hospital between 1948 and 1951. Cigarroa also was a teaching fellow at Harvard before serving as first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Medical Corps in 1951, when he conducted seminal research in hepatitis in Kyoto, Japan, during the Korean War. Returning to Laredo in 1954, Cigarroa (affectionately referred to as Dr. Joaquin by those who knew him) started a medical practice alongside his father and brother at the Cigarroa Medical Clinic. During the next seven decades, he served not only as a physician who ministered to countless patients as a clinician, but also as a driving force in advancing medicine and education throughout the state of Texas. Colleagues and patients heralded him for his generosity and compassion, and Cigarroa helped establish several medical centers and served as chief of staff at Laredo’s Mercy Hospital for many years and on its board of trustees. He played a vital role in recruiting doctors to South Texas, an area that previously was underserved by physicians. As a member of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for twelve years, his vision proved instrumental in expanding the University of Texas Health Science Center in San Antonio and establishing a dental school there as well as the approval for the UT Health Science Center in Houston . In Laredo, Cigarroa worked to facilitate access to higher education for every student regardless of background. In 1968 he and his brother Leo provided compelling testimony before the Texas legislature which led to Senate approval for the establishment of Texas A&M International University in Laredo. He served on the board of the Laredo Independent School District (LISD) for more than twenty-three years. LISD named the Cigarroa Middle School after him when it opened in 1983 in honor of his advancement of education for Laredo’s youth. He also worked to establish new degree programs at Laredo Community College. In recognition of his achievements and life of service, Cigarroa accrued many honors, including: Mr. South Texas, 1981; Laredo Times Man of the Year, 1992 and 1994; LULAC ’s Life Achievement Laureate, 1996; Humanitarian of the Year in 1999; Distinguished Alumnus Award, University of Texas, 2002; election as a member of the Philosophical Society of Texas and as Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem. He was a longtime member of Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church in Laredo. Joaquin Cigarroa married Barbara Judith “Bobbie” Flores in 1954. They had ten children: Patricia, Barbara, Francisco, Ricardo, Jorge, Carlos, Gabriella, Joaquin, Maria Elena and Marisa. He and Bobbie encouraged each of their children to achieve their dreams through obtaining a higher education. “There’s nothing more beautiful than learning,” Dr. Joaquin expressed. His son Francisco Cigarroa, a pediatric transplant surgeon, former chancellor of the University of Texas System , and chair of the Ford Foundation’s board of trustees, recalled, “In shadowing my father as he made house calls, and seeing his love of his practice, I received a firsthand view not only of the beauty of the art of medicine, which has run through four generations in my family, but also how this art pro

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Laredo - Where the Camino Crossed the Rio Grande

1755

Laredo, founded 1755, sits at the historic Rio Grande crossing of El Camino Real de los Tejas, the gateway between the Spanish settlements of northern Mexico and the missions of Texas.

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Laredo - Republic of the Rio Grande

1840

In 1840, Laredo served as the capital of the Republic of the Rio Grande, a short-lived separatist republic that attempted to break away from Mexico. The capitol building still stands.

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Everything Near Laredo

83 stories, landmarks & places within ~20 miles — the same local lore RoadyGoat plays as you drive through.

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