AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Singer-songwriter and musician William Beckmann is proud of his Texas roots.<\/p>\n
\u201cI tell people I\u2019m from Texas every chance I get, you know, I wear it, I wear it on my sleeve,\u201d Beckmann said.<\/p>\n
The Del Rio kid, as he likes to call himself, grew up in the border town, spending 18 years of his life immersed in the rich diversity the region has to offer.<\/p>\n
\u201cListening to all kinds of different music, growing up on the border from country music to mariachi music and northern Mexican music. It was all kind of a blend there in Del Rio,\u201d said Beckmann. \u201cSo it was cool. I was exposed to a lot of different genres of music and that kind of inevitably spilled into what I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
And when he left Del Rio for Nashville, he made sure to bring some of that Mexican culture with him.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s definitely something that I that I kind of keep close to my heart because when I first started playing guitar and playing in front of people, that was just something that I that I did and I never want to lose that because that\u2019s it kind of it feels comfortable for me and it\u2019s very nostalgic,\u201d said the 30-year-old Beckmann.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not hard to see where that nostalgia comes from. Beckmann sometimes shares the stage with his abuelito, who introduced him to mariachi and Mexican music.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe grew up singing, just like he tells me, at the cantinas and the bars and stuff, just like everybody did. There\u2019s been times I was playing empty bars and stuff and he would he would still sing a song or two with me,\u201d Beckmann said.<\/p>\n
Beckmann has come a long way since singing in those empty bars.<\/p>\n
He\u2019s performed at iconic venues like the Grand Ole Opry and most recently performed at a South by Southwest Conference and Festival showcase.<\/p>\n
Up next, one of his biggest dreams comes true.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can assure you I\u2019m probably the biggest George Strait fan you\u2019ll ever meet in your whole life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
Beckmann shared a video on Dec. 26 last year with the comment that he was manifesting a chance to open for the king of country music, George Strait. That dream will become a reality on April 9 and April 11 at the Moody Center in Austin, where Beckmann will be the opening act for Strait.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo be opening up for him is an absolute dream come true. And to be doing it in my home state in Texas, here in the city of Austin, is amazing. So I can\u2019t put into words how grateful I am for the opportunity,\u201d said Beckmann. \u201cIt\u2019s definitely one of those things that you have to pinch yourself, but yeah, we\u2019re really happy about it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Beckmann continues to celebrate his Texas roots and connections that brought him where he is today.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think maybe at the time I didn\u2019t realize how cool of a gift that is, you know, to be able to have people that take you under their wing or, you know, that you can lean on a little bit. But that\u2019s definitely a Texas thing that I\u2019m very proud of. And I try to represent the state of Texas and the Texas music community the same way,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 Singer-songwriter and musician William Beckmann is proud of his Texas roots. \u201cI tell people I\u2019m…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211716,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[82901,9980,9978,16878,132,134,133,1570,102,138,2777,223,82,2970,26986,1569,835],"class_list":["post-211715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-alex-stockwell","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-latest-arts-entertainment-stories","tag-app-latest-entertainment-stories","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ctv","tag-dallas","tag-el-paso","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-san-antonio","tag-sxsw-2026","tag-texas-editors-picks","tag-texas-what-you-need-to-know","tag-vod"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}