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Tejano Music Award for Album of the Year – Orchestra

Former American music award

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ24894977 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Tejano Music Award for Album of the Year – Group (formerly the Tejano Music Award for Album of the Year – Orchestra from 1981 to 1997) was an honor presented to albums by Tejano music groups/bands.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Tejano Music Award for Album of the Year – Orchestra” is former American music award. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Tejano, Music and Award, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1981, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1981. For this dossier, Tejano, Music and Award is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “former American music award” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q24894977. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1981 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tejano Music Award for Album of the Year – Orchestra” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.