A place for the love of theatre and costumes.

My father Alejandro R. Diaz played the guitar and he taught me. My little brother Albert began with the trumpet in elementary and eventually went on to play with La Sombra from Chicago. He played with them for a few years then got signed with Sony. I wrote his first his song, "Palomita" with "Tu Me Besas" on the flip side. My brother had a few future Tejano stars in his band, such as Chris Perez, Chente Barrera, Alfonso Gonzales. On the second record, I got to play guitar on a few songs but none so famous as "Carino Mio", where I played with Joel Guzman. The third CD, Cambiame was the best one yet, where he had some of the best Tejano musicians in San Antonio come and play. Today Tiger is working on a fourth record, soon to be out in the Tejano Market. Tejano music is shaped by many different Artist, but Tejano music has one factor that has been silent but influential and that is the inspiration of the Diaz Family.

Music by Alex, the art work to the CD is by Artistic Directions. Long, long ago, in a small part of the Heart of Texas, the part where Mother Nature begins, a Texas Treasure starts a journey and shares the Love of Music. Alex brings all the guitars that join him, his Art and Passion into a Texas breeze from the Gulf of Mexico. Down the Rio Grande to El Paso along the New Mexico border, aste el norte del mango del sarten, Oklahoma's open range to the roses of Tyler, down the east forest side hugging Louisiana, until you see the Gulf of Mexico through the eyes of Galveston, Texas Bolero, is the collection of some of the most beautiful songs in the History of Texas.

This is an acrylic painting of the Sacred Heart of Jalapeno. It was inspired by Gabe Nieto and the Jalapeno Express, a rising country and western star with a flare of Mariachi. The cross symbolizes the T in Nieto, and the O rising from the flames into the symbolic cowboy hat from the Love on the Border CD of Gabe Nieto. I didn't mean to disrespect the Sacred Heart, but to the family of Gabe Nieto, food is a serious thing and they love it hot. Enjoy the ART and the great music of Gabe Nieto.

The Tejano Conjunto Festival 2000 En San Antonio had a poster contest and this was my entry. I was inspired from a young man who was blind and thought it would be cool if he could feel the poster, the mirror as it was divided by the grout. I also carved the letters in hopes of the blind kids to feel the letters. Well, my poster did its best in the competition but no cigar, most of the posters were telling the story of some old dudes smoking cigarettes, drinking and playing some conjunto music. I really loved doing this as I found my things in the dump and habitat for humanity, along with left over mirror from the Millennium Night Club. In my poster, the mirrors show the fingers reaching for the buttons on the accordion reflecting our inner love for the music of the accordion. I used the rotten wood to show that sometimes the things we love are the oldest of our friendships.

Autographed by Santiago Jimenez Jr. in 1991, I had left the Nuclear Power Plant in Bay City. I just couldn't work there anymore, my ex-wife had an affair with a musician. She managed to destroy the relationship between my son and me. I ended up in San Antonio, I decided to be a musician and this was the first thing I bought with some money I had saved. Since then I have played the accordion, so has Joel Guzman, Albert Tiger Diaz, Juanito Castillo, Bruno Zuniga (La Sombra De Valerio), and my Dad. My Dad spoke to my son when my mom passed away and told him that my mom never hated her, we just dealt with the absence of Little Alex. But that is life, like a corrido, telling the story of our village, the rancho.

This Bull Fighter is 24" x 16" and it is made of copper. It is secured to a 1/4" piece of plywood. I made it in 1972 at Crocket Junior High. After making the Virgin Mary out of colored sand, my next project was the Matador and the Toro. Coach Severs was the Art Teacher who guided me through the process. It hung in my parents house for many years. I took it to shown at the Hierro Mohoso art show at La Pena Art Gallery in 2004. I have also taken this bullfighter to different schools to show to students. I made it as 7th grader, many have seen it and have said that it is a work of art. I hope to inspire copper tooling to those who set eyes on the Bull Fighter.

My mom passed away Friday. Genoveva Garcia Diaz and she was born in Placedo Texas. 1933, She never got the chance to go to school, spending all her childhood working with her father on this cotton ranch that her greatgrandfather once owned. She had eight sisters and four brothers, her mother died while my mom was a young girl. She managed to keep my father in line, making his breakfast and coffee everyday on his way to work. She managed to raise two sons and three daughters, plus the grand children and the great grand kids. As the oldest, well, we were best friends. I was the one who had to test the waters for everything. For Halloween I managed to get my Charlie Chaplin costume on and me and the grand kids managed to get some laughter from her as she lay in the living room, in her hospital bed. She wanted to able to see the TV, all about Obama. I remember once, when she was up, we talked about the time when she and I saw in the news when President Kennedy got shot. We are going to have services in Victoria Texas the 10, 11 at Artero Memorial Funeral Home. The best gift from my Mom was the ability to sing. She sang to me as a child and I learned how sing, once I learned how to play the guitar from my Dad, then I wanted to sing play for all my family, eventually to my friends and school mates. Now I want to play and sing for the world.