La Mafia is a four-time Grammy Award The Grammy Awards —or Grammys—are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences of the United States for outstanding achievements in the music industry. The awards ceremony features performances by prominent artists, and some of the awards of more popular interest are presented in a widely-viewed televised ceremony-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas Houston is the fourth-largest city in the United States and the largest city in the state of Texas. As of the 2009 U.S. Census estimate, the city had a population of 2.2 million within an area of 600 square miles (1,600 km2). Houston is the seat of Harris County and the economic center of the Houston–Sugar Land–Baytown metropolitan area—the and has charted a course as a Latin Music Latin American Music is the music of all countries in Latin America and comes in many varieties. Latin America is home to musical styles such as the simple, rural conjunto music of northern Mexico, the sophisticated habanera of Cuba, the rhythmic sounds of the Puerto Rican plena, the symphonies of Heitor Villa-Lobos, and the simple and moving band.
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History
La Mafia was founded in 1980 in Houston, Tx. Vocalist Oscar De La Rosa & producer/keyboardist/accordionist Armando Lichtenberger Jr. have created an original style that has survived various changes in the music industry. The band consists of Tim Ruiz on bass, David de la Garza on keyboards and background vocals, Joe Gonzales on drums and Viktor Pacheco on Guitar in 2007. The band has won 2 Grammys & 2 Latin Grammys was most recently nominated in 2009 for a Latin Grammy for the most recent album "Eternamente Romanticos"
La Mafia, seeking to expand their musical horizons, began touring extensively in Mexico In Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica many cultures matured into advanced civilizations such as the Olmec, the Toltec, the Teotihuacan, the Zapotec, the Maya and the Aztec before the first contact with Europeans. In 1521, Spain conquered and colonized the territory, which was administered as the viceroyalty of New Spain which would eventually become Mexico and Latin America Latin America is a region of the Americas where Romance languages (i.e., those derived from Latin) – particularly Spanish, Portuguese, and variably French – are primarily spoken. Latin America has an area of approximately 21,069,501 km² (7,880,000 sq mi), almost 3.9% of the Earth's surface or 14.1% of its land surface area. As of 2009, its beginning in the late 1980s. The practice of Mexican-American artists performing in Mexico on a large scale was unheard of before La Mafia. Back home, La Mafia has performed in front of three record-setting crowds at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, also called RodeoHouston, is the world's largest livestock exhibition as well as the richest regular-season PRCA rodeo event, held at Reliant Park in Houston, Texas, USA. In 2010, attendance reached a record high of 2.2 million, requiring more than 22,000 volunteers. In 2007, the Rodeo was deemed "the at the Houston Astrodome Reliant Astrodome, also known as the Houston Astrodome or simply the Astrodome, is the world's first domed sports stadium, located in Houston, Texas, USA. The stadium is part of the Reliant Park complex. It opened in 1965 as Harris County Domed Stadium and was nicknamed the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
Discography
Since 1993, La Mafia has recorded each of its hits at its own Urbana Recording Studios, including the million-selling "Estas Tocando Fuego" and "Ahora y Siempre". The band has recorded 35 albums and CDs, not including dozens of compilation and greatest hits releases.
Awards and recognitions
La Mafia received Grammy Awards for its CDs "Un Million De Rosas" and "En Tus Manos" and Latin Grammy Awards for its CDs "Para El Pueblo" and "Nuevamente". It also has received eight Premio Lo Nuestro Awards and 12 Tejano Music Awards, including a Lifetime Achievement Award from the latter, numerous Billboard awards and was listed in the top 10 Billboard Latin Artists for the entire decade of the 90s, ranking La Mafia as the most successful Latin artist Houston has ever produced.
La Mafia vs Kumbia All Starz
In the summer of 2008 Oscar De La Rosa, leader of La Mafia challenged A.B. Quintanilla Abraham Issac Quintanilla III better known as A.B. Quintanilla, is a Mexican American musician and record producer. A native Texan of Mexican descent. He is better known as the older brother of the late Tejano music singer Selena and his group Los Kumbia All Starz DJ Kane - Singer Ricky Rick - Singer Chris Pérez - Guitar Nick - Keyboards Joey – Drums BoBBo - Keyboards Gipper - Accordion Luigi – Keyboards Robby – Percussion Frankie - Percussion Kiddo – D.J to a battle of the bands. A.B. Quintanilla responded by making a video saying that he accepted and that the battle would be held at Robstown, Texas on August 2, 2008. A press conference was held in San Antonio, Texas San Antonio is the second-largest city in the state of Texas and the seventh-largest city in the United States with a population of 1.3 million. The city is the seat of Bexar County. Located in the American Southwest and the northern part of South Texas, San Antonio is the center of Tejano culture and Texas tourism.[citation needed] The city is on July 30, 2008 where both groups answered questions to the fans. The two stages were set side to side and the rules were each group had to sing 3 songs in a row. The battle began as they tossed a coin to see who would sing first. Oscar called heads and heads it was, so he elected A.B. Quintanilla Abraham Issac Quintanilla III better known as A.B. Quintanilla, is a Mexican American musician and record producer. A native Texan of Mexican descent. He is better known as the older brother of the late Tejano music singer Selena to go first. For his first 3 songs he chose 3 Tejano Tejano music or Tex-Mex Music is the name given to various forms of folk and popular music originating among the Hispanic populations of Central and Southern Texas. In recent years, artists such as the "Queen of Tejano" Selena Quintanilla, La Mafia, Jay Perez, and Mazz have transformed Tejano music from primarily a local, ethnic form of songs he wrote and he got his two special guest singers Elida Reyna to sing the first two and Jesse Turner of Siggno to sing the third one. Then La Mafia sang "Estás Tocando Fuego" and two more 90's Billboard hits. For Kumbia All Starz DJ Kane - Singer Ricky Rick - Singer Chris Pérez - Guitar Nick - Keyboards Joey – Drums BoBBo - Keyboards Gipper - Accordion Luigi – Keyboards Robby – Percussion Frankie - Percussion Kiddo – D.J's second turn, their lead singer DJ Kane Jason Cano better known as DJ Kane is a Mexican American singer. He is the current lead vocalist for A.B. Quintanilla III Y Los Kumbia All Starz. He also was the lead vocalist for the Latin Grammy award winning A.B. Quintanilla III Y Los Kumbia Kings and went on to become a successful solo artist and Ricky Rick performed the hit single "Shhh!" and two other songs with the dancers from DJ Kane's group when he was a solo singer, John and JD. La Mafia then performed with 3 more songs. Kumbia All Starz DJ Kane - Singer Ricky Rick - Singer Chris Pérez - Guitar Nick - Keyboards Joey – Drums BoBBo - Keyboards Gipper - Accordion Luigi – Keyboards Robby – Percussion Frankie - Percussion Kiddo – D.J sang 3 more songs, then A.B. Quintanilla Abraham Issac Quintanilla III better known as A.B. Quintanilla, is a Mexican American musician and record producer. A native Texan of Mexican descent. He is better known as the older brother of the late Tejano music singer Selena asked Oscar De La Rosa if they could sing one more song, and Oscar agreed, and so Ricky Rick and Melissa Jiménez got on stage and performed the hit song "Rica Y Apretadita". La Mafia then sang 3 of their biggest hits, and after that the crowd was screaming for more, so they sang one more song. At the end of the night La Mafia was declared the winner.[1]
Members
- Oscar De La Rosa - vocalist
- Armando Lichtenberger Jr - accordion & keyboards
- Tim Ruiz - bass
- Joe Gonzales - drums
- Viktor Pacheco - guitar
- David De La Garza - keyboards & background vocals
Past members: Leonard Gonzales -guitar Robert Gonzales - guitar & bass guitar Marion Aquilina - guitar Gene Barrientos - guitar Ivo Bove - guitar Israel (Speedy) Villanueva - bass guitar Adolf Alonso - bass guitar Rudy Martinez - bass guitar Tony Rodriguez - drums Mario Gonzalez - drums Adam Mosqueda - drums Michael Aguilar - drums Jesse Moreno - Sax Jesse Peralez - Sax Rick Patino - Sax-Trumpet
External links
- Official Website
- Official MySpace
- Official Facebook
- Official YouTube
- La Mafia at Allmusic allmusic is a service of music guide, owned by All Media Guide. Allmusic was founded in 1991 by popular-culture archivist Michael Erlewine as a guide for consumers. Its first reference book was published the following year. AMG on the Internet predates the World Wide Web and was first available as a Gopher site
References
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