Todavía Hay Luz
Begin with Abuela. The album’s recurring accordion motif becomes the voice of memory and the light Luz was taught to carry.
MUSAKE RECORDS PRESENTS
Luz del Sur
“I make Tejano music about the things we don’t want to forget.”
A South Texas Tejano singer carrying family stories forward through music.
HER STORY
Songs are another way families remember.
Luz was born and raised in Robstown, Texas, in a family where music was part of everyday life. Her father played bajo sexto in a local conjunto band at weddings, quinceañeras and community celebrations around Nueces County.
Her grandmother was the emotional center of the family. During difficult times she would say, “Todavía hay luz del sur”—there is still light from the south. For Luz, the phrase came to mean that home, family and faith can carry a person through darkness.
After her grandmother died, Luz adopted Luz del Sur as her stage name. The name is not inherited literally; the light is. Her music became a promise to carry that light forward.
START HERE
Three songs. Three ways into Luz’s world.
Sábado en el Salón
Then meet her community. A joyful South Texas dance-hall cumbia filled with accordion, horns, movement and Saturday-night life.
Bajo Sexto y Corazón
Then meet Papá. The bajo sexto becomes the emotional voice of musical inheritance passed from one generation to the next.
FEATURED MUSICAL KEEPSAKE
Bajo las Estrellas del Sur
Ten songs framed as a year in the life around a Robstown dance hall—quinceañeras, first love, Saturday-night dancing, Sunday-morning reflection, heartbreak, leaving, homecoming and rediscovered love.
The journey begins with Abuela’s light and ends with Luz realizing that the light she inherited is now hers to carry forward.
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See the story.
The lyric-video experience for Bajo las Estrellas del Sur will appear here as the album is released.
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THE ARTIST KEEPSAKE
The Red Rose
The red rose belongs to Luz’s permanent artistic world: a symbol connected to Abuela, inheritance and the love that continues after someone is gone.
A symbol of the people whose love continues to bloom within us.
GO DEEPER
MuSake introduces Luz.
Her own website brings you into her world.
More music, stories, videos and the continuing world of Luz del Sur.
Visit LuzDelSurMusic.comFROM THE MUSAKE FAMILY
More from the MuSake family.
Future collaborations and shared projects will appear here when they have a story worth sharing.
Luz del Sur is a virtual recording artist created by MuSake Records. Her music and visual world are developed as an original artistic project.
Music for the ear.
Food for the heart.
Keepsakes for a lifetime.
We make musical keepsakes.
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