Las 3 Divas

Shelly Lares has been described as an artist who needs to buy a bigger house to fit all of her music awards. Nominated every year for an award since 1984, she is the recipient of eight Tejano Music Awards including 2005 Female Vocalist and Female Entertainer of the Year. Additionally, she has been honored by the Latin Times Music Awards and the Pura Vida Hispanic Music Awards.

A native of San Antonio, she began her musical career at the tender age of ten and was signed to her first record deal in 1989.  Lares writes and co-writes all of her songs and is an accredited BMI songwriter, producer, guitarist, drummer and percussionist.  Her petite frame and powerful voice have earned her the nickname “Little Miss Dynamite.”

Music has always been a family affair for diva Stefani Montiel. Raised on her grandfather’s accordion-style classic rancheras and her father’s band Los Chavos, this Albuquerque native traded a song in exchange for a bowl of cherries and a soda at the age of three and hasn’t looked back since.

Releasing her first single - “Rancho Grande” and “Que Grande El Amor de Dios” - at the age of five, she recorded her first album, Angel Baby at the age of nine.  The album went on to garner three chart hits, “Las Gaviotas,” “Flor De Las Flores” and Blue Bayou.” Her career continued to skyrocket and in the year 2000, she was nominated for Best Tejano Performance at the first ever Latin Grammy’s. She was nominated for a traditional Grammy award in 2004 for Best Tejano album, Takin’ on the World. Montiel currently serves as the First Vice President and Trustee of the Texas Chapter of the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Elida Reyna has been in the music industry for more than 10 years. Although she began singing at quinceaneras and weddings in 1988, she did not officially begin her music career until she met renowned arranger Noel Hernandez in 1991. A year later, Reyna announced to her parents that she was leaving college and pursuing a career in music. Her father, billed as one of her biggest supporters, showed his encouragement by buying her group an RV. A native of Mercedes, Texas, Reyna lists her role models as Latin greats, Laura Canales and Selena Quintanilla-Perez.

In 2000 she was awarded the Female Entertainer of the Year and Female Vocalist of the Year awards at the 20th Annual Tejano Music Awards. Reyna and her band also went on to win Mexican Regional Song and Song of the Year, “Duele,” that same year.  Reyna recently appeared in the independent film, Harvest of Redemption.