Tejano music legend and TV host Johnny Canales dies at 77

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- Tejano euphony fable and TV big Johnny Canales has died. He was 77 years old.

His wife, Nora, posted the announcement connected their Facebook leafage Thursday morning.

"He was much than conscionable a beloved husband, father, TV host, musician, and entertainer; helium was a beacon of anticipation and joyousness for countless people," she wrote successful the post. "His infectious charisma and dedication to promoting Latino euphony and civilization near a ample people connected the world. Johnny's tone volition proceed to unrecorded connected done the countless lives helium touched and the bequest helium built."

Canales became a household sanction with the 1983 debut of "The Johnny Canales Show," which aboriginal became known arsenic "El Show de Johnny and Nora Canales."

The amusement started successful Corpus Christi and yet dispersed to different areas of Texas. It was a hangout for Tejano artists, and Canales coined the catchphrase, "You got it, instrumentality it away."