Ramón Ayala (born August 13, 1928) is an American accordion player from Hidalgo, Texas, who currently resides in the Rio Grande Valley.
His progressive style and technique has earned him the 2009 Accordion Player of the Year Award from the South Texas Conjunto Association.
[4] Ramón Ayala started playing the accordion in 1951.
In 1955, he picked up the bajo sexto after his father Pedro Ayala, El Monarca del Acordeón, showed him his first two chords.
Ramón Ayala has recorded with Freddy Fender, Paulino Bernal and Esteban Jordan, among others.