El Vez
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Mexican people
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-American
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rock and roll
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artist, who performs and records original material and covers classic rock songs. Mixing the styles of Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley
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and many other American rock artists with his own Latin-American
Latin America
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heritage and music, he is known for expressing revolutionary views through the satire and humor in his songs.
El Vez is known for his high-production value, frenetic stage show, which features two backup singers/dancers (the Elvettes), numerous on- and off-stage costume changes, and between-song monologues mixing humor and political activism.
Lopez's main persona and style is very similar to Elvis Presley, as his stage name suggests. However, he is not strictly an Elvis impersonator
Elvis impersonator
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; on his recordings and in his live show, he covers many non-Mexican artists, such as David Bowie
David Bowie
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, Iggy Pop
Iggy Pop
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, John Lennon
John Lennon
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, Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan
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, Paul Simon
Paul Simon
Paul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
, T. Rex
T. Rex (band)
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, Queen
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and the Beatles
The Beatles
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. Also known as the "Thin Brown Duke", "The Chicano Elvis", or "The Mexican Elvis", he got his start in the Latino
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punk band The Zeros, and played in Catholic Discipline
Catholic Discipline
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with the folk singer Phranc
Phranc
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El Vez was once a contestant on the game show To Tell the Truth
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Albums
- 1994 - How Great Thou Art (the cover art is a play on Elvis Presley's How Great Thou Art album)
- 1994 - Fun in Español
- 1994 - Graciasland (the cover art is a play on Paul SimonPaul SimonPaul Frederic Simon is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist.Simon is best known for his success, beginning in 1965, as part of the duo Simon & Garfunkel, with musical partner Art Garfunkel. Simon wrote most of the pair's songs, including three that reached number one on the US singles...
's GracelandGraceland (album)Graceland was Paul Simon's highest charting album in the U.S. in over a decade, reaching #3 in the national Billboard charts, receiving a certification of 5× Platinum by the RIAA and eventually selling over 14 million copies, making it Simon's most commercially successful album...
) - 1994 - Merry Mex-Mas
- 1995 - El Vez is Alive
- 1996 - Never Been to Spain (Until Now)
- 1996 - G.I. Ay! Ay! Blues (A play on Elvis's G.I. BluesG.I. BluesG.I. Blues is a 1960 Elvis Presley musical motion picture played as a romantic comedy. It was filmed at Paramount's Hollywood studios, with some pre-production scenery shot on location in Germany before Presley's release from the army. The movie reached #2 on the Variety weekly national box office...
) - 1998 - A Lad from Spain? and Son of a Lad From Spain (the cover graphics play on David BowieDavid BowieDavid Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...
's Aladdin SaneAladdin SaneAladdin Sane is the sixth album by David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1973 . The follow-up to his breakthrough The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, it was the first album Bowie wrote and released as a bona fide rock star...
) - 2000 - Pure Aztec Gold
- 2000 - NoElVezSi
- 2001 - Boxing with God
- 2002 - Sno-Way José
Filmography
- El Rey De Rock 'N' Roll (2000, documentary)
- Mi vida loca (1993)
- Gospel Show in Madrid (2008, live concert)
- Several other appearances in documentaries
- 2 Hip 4 TV (NBCNBCThe National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...
variety show)
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