Rosie Flores
About
Rosie Flores is a triple-threat Texas musician and 2024 NEA National Heritage Fellow who has navigated the male-centric worlds of rock and country music as a respected lead guitarist, singer, and songwriter. A daughter of San Antonio, she helped lay the foundation for the alt-country movement as a celebrated performer on the 1970s “cowpunk” circuit and with her 1987 debut solo album. Flores became the first Latina to crack Billboard’s country music chart. Over a five-decade career spanning rockabilly, country, Americana, and Tex-Mex, she has championed trailblazers like Wanda Jackson and Janis Martin, and won a 2007 Peabody Award for narrating NPR's Whole Lotta Shakin’. Her influence is recognized in the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum’s “Western Edge” exhibition. A spark plug live performer, she was honored with Rosie Flores Day by the city of Austin in 2006.
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“She has a voice that, like Gram Parsons’s, cracks in all the right places and an untempered approach to guitar picking that’s a wonder to behold.”
“San Antonio rockabilly singer Rosie Flores was one of the most impressive acts of the evening… Flores was also the only performer brave enough to playfully attempt a duck walk.”
“Working Girl’s Guitar is Rosie to the core. Sassy, classy and ready to kick ass-y.”
“Flores is a working girl whose instrument and voice labor to give you a good time and make you think and feel more deeply.”
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