El Vez is the Latin sensation that is sweeping the Nation and the world, following
successful tours in Australia, Germany, Spain, Norway, Holland, Austria, England,
France, Belgium, Canada and more.
A modern multicultural hybrid of Americana and Mexicano, he is more than
entertainment, he is a thinking man’s Elvis, a post-modern King with a Latin twist,
the Chicano experience presented and told through the songs of Elvis.
Imagine Cesar Chavez fronting a Punk Rock band, Liberace teaching Chicano Studies,
Tom Jones singing about the Virgin de Guadalupe, throw in multiple costumes changes,
dancing back up singers and a rocking band and you have imagined El Vez!
El Vez is like a Jukebox exploded and put back together again. The Music mixes and
remixes last centuries music, matching and contrasting various genre and styles, 5
different tunes may find their way into one Elvis song, becoming an EL VEZ song.
The subject matter is Elvis through a latino looking glass. "In the Ghetto" becomes
"En El Barrio", "Suspicious Minds" become "Immigration Time". Elvis' logo TCB …
becomes
"Taking Care of Business" an ode to the undocumented workers of America. Mixed
in with El Vez originals (i.e.; the Zapatistas in Chiapas, safe sex) it becomes a
musicophiles history dream.
El Vez has appeared on The Tonight Show, Oprah, MTV, HBO, CNN, Live with Regis
& Kathy Lee, The Weakest Link & "mucho mas" … He has also been raved about in
Newsweek, People, Rolling Stone, The Wall Street Journal, Vogue, TV Guide, The New
Yorker, Los Angeles & London Times and many others.
El Vez brings a social-political-La Vegas-via-Memphis by way of Mexico-Rock and Roll
revue featuring his top notch band the Memphis Mariachis and the world famous Lovely
Elvettes (Lisa Maria and Priscillita). El Vez has R-O-C-K’ed across U-S-A and Europe,
headlining festivals and opening for such greats as David Bowie, Carlos Santana, Linda
Ronstadt, and the B-52’s.
With over 13 CDs under his Elvis belt, merchandise that includes T-shirts, videos and
locks of hair, El Vez is a cross-cultural caped crusader singing for truth, justice and
the Mexican/American way. You’ll leave an El Vez concert feeling proud to be
Mexican, no matter what nationality you are.
for more info on El Vez: ELVEZ.net