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Gilbert Velasquez, born in Seguin, TX and raised in San Antonio, TX. President of “Velasquez Productions Inc.” in San Antonio TX, has been a part of “Tejano Music” since the mid ‘70’s. He began performing as a guitarist in the early 70's and finally jointed “The Royal Jesters” in 1974 recording the album “The Band”. Later from 1976 to 1979 Gilbert toured Europe, the Far East and beyond with a band called SugarJammer, bringing tejano music to thousands of our military troops overseas. After returning to San Antonio again in 1979 Gilbert joined the David Marez band “People” finishing the ‘70’s with this popular group at that time. In 1980 he was asked to join the “Latin Breed” and thus began his quarter century affiliation with this legendary band. In the ’80’s Gilbert worked closely with the newborn TTMA to begin what we know today as the “Tejano Music Awards”. Anyone in the business today will recognize Gilbert as part of the force in the production of this event. His input ranged from writing rhythm charts for a multitude of artists who performed at this show during those years, to working as a house engineer and a mixing engineer on live recording dates. == The Next Level == Also, in 1980 Gilbert began working as a studio musician at the renowned Amen Recording Studios. Gilbert quickly became involved in production both as an arranger and as a recording engineer. In the early ‘80’s Gilbert worked as a staff producer for “Cara Records”. He recorded/produced such “new” groups at that time including “Mazz”, “La Mafia’, “Selena y Los Dinos”, “Bobby Naranjo y Dirreccion”, “Charro Band”, (the list is much too long to list here) in ’88 he produced the landmark CD “Breakin’ the Rules” for Latin Breed. He also recorded/produced the recording of “Tejanos for Hunger” featuring virtually every Tejano artist of the time. The ‘90’s brought an ever growing roster of recording/producing accomplishments for Gilbert, his reputation as a top notch producer/engineer reached beyond the boundaries of Texas as he traveled to Monterrey and Mexico City to work for record companies such as “Universal Mexico”, EMI Mexico, “Balboa Records”, Discos MCM among others. Although this music is largely norteño and grupero, point is, Gilbert was hired strictly on his abilities as a Tejano producer/engineer. “I was so proud and humbled, at every turn musicians would refer to the work I did for Tejano music” says Velasquez. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Gilbert Velasquez」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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