About

The Jalapeño Mix show airs every Sunday from 12 Noon to 12 midnight on KEJS, 106.5FM in Lubbock, Texas. 

Gilbert Esparza is the host of the Jalapeño Mix Radio Show. The request line is 806-770-5357. Be a little patient, since the line is almost always busy. Your best bet is to e-mail him during the show on Sunday nights at hotline@kejsfm.com, or at any time, at jalapenomix@yahoo.com. 

Or if you'd like, call him at 806-747-5951 during the week for your specific "must-hear" dedication or request for the next show.

The Jalapeño Mix showcases the "hits" in the Tejano Golden Oldies, Tejano Classics and the Old School categories. Combine all of these musical ingredients into one on a Sunday afternoon and you have the ultimate "Oldies Show", The Jalapeño Mix!

Requests and dedications play a big part in the show's appeal and consequently contributes to the show's ever-growing popularity. In fact the show's popularity has spawned several independent clubs and organizations that make the Jalapeño Mix their primary source of listening enjoyment on a "Sunday afternoon".

One of the most interesting clubs is The Jalapeñitos, which consists of elementary school-age kids, and younger, that like the Old School classics. Usually the parents and grandparents have a lot to do with introducing this specific generation to music that played an important part in their parents and grandparents' life. Usually the adults dedicate songs to the kids and than later the kids start dedicating to their parents and family and friends songs like "Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero", "Madresita", "Somebody Loves You", "Angelito", "Angel Baby" and other songs that say what you feel.

Another club is the Jalapeño Rock Friends which is made up of friends, family and neighbors that live in a specific city block in Lubbock, Texas. Their main goal is "to expand the show's listenership to eventually encompass an entire neighborhood and create weekly 'get-togethers' and reminisce with 'los vecinos'".

These are just a two of many groups of families and friends that get together every Sunday to enjoy the "oldies", BBQ and their favorite refreshments. Entire "familias", along with their compadres, comadres, abuelito y abuelita call in faithfully every Sunday, just to let Gilbert know that they are tuning in, and to send them their favorite oldies "over the air". 

Also, several car clubs cruise up and down the main streets, including North University in Lubbock, and call in to request their favorite "oldies tune", dedicating a specific tune to their "homies, jefes, jefas y rucas" and not necessarily in that order. One particular car club has made the Jalapeño Mix their official "Oldies" station during their weekly "get-togethers" at Rogers Park, never failing to call in and dedicate an oldie to everyone that's in attendance at their weekly BBQ's.

Young, and especially the adult listeners, love the show and will occasionally call in to request a specific song that takes them "on a cruise down memory lane and remember when life was a bit more simpler and slower.

" Love songs are never lacking during the Jalapeno Mix. In fact, Gilbert has made several "surprise" marriage proposals from one person to another "on the air". As of date, there has not been one instance that a marriage proposal was rejected. And to sweeten the proposal, the show's host will usually dedicate the couple a love song to ensure a "yes!"