Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny Rodriguez at the PAC in 1976. Johnny Rodriguez, a trailblazing Mexican American country music star whose folksy ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Johnny Rodriguez, a trailblazing Hispanic figure in country music, has died at the age of 73. His daughter, Aubry Rodriguez, ...

Johnny Rodriguez, country star with hits like “Pass Me By (If You’re Only Passing Through)” and “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico,” died at the age of 73 on May 9. He entered hospice care earlier this week.

A country music pioneer who racked up several chart-topping hits during the 1970s has died at the age of 73. Johnny Rodriguez died on Friday, May 9 “surround by family,” his daughter, Aubry Rodriguez, ...

In Facebook post Friday night, his daughter Aubry Rodriguez said her family's announcement of Johnny Rodriguez’s death was made with “profound sadness and heavy hearts.” She said her father passed ...

Johnny Rodriguez, a trailblazing Mexican American country music star whose folksy storytelling propelled him to fame in the 1970s, has died, according to reports. He was 73. His daughter, Aubry ...

Johnny Rodriguez, the pioneering singer-songwriter widely regarded as the first Mexican American country star, has died. He was 73. His death on May 9 was confirmed in a social media post from his ...

Johnny Rodriguez, the first major Mexican American country star, who sang in both English and Spanish and wrote 1970s hits including “Ridin’ My Thumb to Mexico” — about a forlorn hitchhiker trying to ...