The music lives on. For three decades, The Mavericks carved out their Grammy-winning sound – a multicultural version of American roots music, blending stateside influences like country and rock & roll with the border-crossing textures of Cuban grooves, Tex-Mex twang, and Latin swagger – under the direction of Raul Malo.

Raul wasn’t just the band’s frontman; he was its larger-than-life patriarch, with a booming baritone hailed by Rolling Stone as “operatic, spiritual, casually elegant, and wholly captivating.

Don’t miss The Mavericks & Friends tour on Friday, August 7, at ACL Live!

Get tickets and details here.

Win a pair of tickets to the show!

Contest ends Monday, July 27, 2026. See regulations.

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