Norberto "Beto" Quintanilla Iracheta (May 23, 1948 – March 18, 2007) was a Regional Mexican singer and songwriter.
As a child, Quintanilla composed poems or odes to his mother, his teacher, his school, and his country.
He left school after only a year of secondary education in order to work in fields alongside his father and his five brothers.
The farm was not enough to support the entire family and when he was 13 years old, young Beto relocated to Reynosa, Tamaulipas, where he had found a job milking cows.
However, at some time during his life on the ranch, he did meet a pair of musicians who played bajo sexto and accordion.