SAN ANTONIO — Roy Paniagua, a longtime San Antonio musician and radio personality whose career spanned more than four decades, has died, according to friends and fellow musicians.
Paniagua had recently been hospitalized after experiencing difficulty breathing.
His career touched nearly every corner of San Antonio’s Tejano music scene. Paniagua played bass and sang on recordings with Latin Breed, the Royal Jesters, Sunny Ozuna, Flaco Jiménez, Freddy Fender, Johnny Rodriguez and the Texas Tornados, with much of that work recorded at the legendary Manny Guerra studios…