Mazz is a Grammy 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 Award winning Tejano band 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 originating from south Texas Houston is the largest city in Texas and the fourth-largest in the United States, while San Antonio is the second largest in the state and seventh largest in the United States. Dallas–Fort Worth and Greater Houston are the fourth and sixth largest United States metropolitan areas, respectively. Other major cities include El Paso and Austin—the. They were formed in Brownsville, TX, by singer/guitarists Jimmy González and Joe López, and emerged as one of the most innovative bands in their genre after adding synthesizer to combine traditional Mexican music and popular Latin rhythms. They debuted in 1978 with Mazz, featuring the hit single "Comprendo Mi Amor." During the following decades, Grupo Mazz became a successful band on the regional Mexican scene, climbing the charts with hits "Laura Ya No Vive Aqui" and "No Te Olvidaré," among other songs.Lopez, with his suave voice, and Gonzalez, with his winning songwriting and producing talents, formed their own groups after Mazz's break up in 1998. Joe Lopez y La Nueva Imagen Mazz and Jimmy Gonzalez y Grupo Mazz.
Since the separation, Jimmy Gonzalez y Grupo Mazz has enjoyed plenty of success. The group won Best Tejano Album four times at the Latin Grammy Awards from 2001-2004. The group also won Best Tejano Album at the American Grammy Awards in 2004. In 2006, the two planned a reunion tour and release of a new album, Joe Lopez, Jimmy Gonzalez y Grupo Mazz: The Last Dance Mazz Live Reunion.Not long after,Lopez was found guilty of sexually assaulting a teenage relative at his Rancho Viejo home in April 2004. He was sentenced to 32 years in prison, but because he will serve the sentences concurrently rather than consecutively, he's currently serving a twenty year sentence. Joe Lopez' music, including the songs he recorded when he was the lead singer with Grupo Mazz, continue to get airplay at Tejano stations around the world today along with Jimmy Gonzales Y Grupo Mazz' recordings as well.
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History
The group's name was taken from a spelling variation of the Spanish word mas (meaning "more") and spelled similar to that of late 70s band Kiss Kiss is an American hard rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, and pyrotechnics. Kiss has. Original band leaders Joe Lopez and Jimmy Gonzalez formed Mazz in Brownsville, Texas Brownsville is a city in and the county seat of Cameron County, Texas, United States. Brownsville is the 15th largest city in the state of Texas and the 129th largest in the United States. The population was 139,722 at the 2000 census. Brownsville is also the southernmost city in Texas after already being a part of the former band The Bel-Airs. The group was discovered by Texas music promoter Luis Silva and was originally signed under the Cara Records label. In 1978 they released a self-titled album and began promoting the single Comprendo Mi Amor (Understand My Love). They then followed with their second album release Mas Mazz later that same year. (There are many variations as to how the group Mazz formed, this is one of them. It is thought that Juan Ignacio Murillo was one of the founders of the group Mazz. He is often never given credit publicly except from fellow musicians in a close knit group. The original members or as said here the "first lineup" would leave Mazz and start a new group called The Force. To listen to their sound check out the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgU-qH2rfCA)
The band started on shaky ground as they received most response from California California's geography ranges from the Pacific coast to the Sierra Nevada mountain range in the east, to Mojave desert areas in the southeast and the Redwood–Douglas fir forests of the northwest. The center of the state is dominated by the Central Valley, one of the most productive agricultural areas in the world. California is the most for their music rather than in their home state of Texas. Because of this the band began focusing on their now trademark sound of incorporating synthesizer A synthesizer is an electronic musical instrument that uses filters and tone generators to create waveforms which are then processed to generate sound. Synthesizers can closely reproduce the sound of some instruments, but many keyboard players use them for their characteristic sound sounds with various Latin music styles popular in the south Texas region such as rancheras The ranchera is a genre of the traditional music of Mexico originally sung by only one person and a guitar in the times of the Mexican Revolution. Years later it became closely associated with the mariachi groups which evolved in Jalisco in the post-revolutionary period, rancheras are also played today by norteño or banda. Drawing on rural, cumbias It is often asserted that Cumbia is a variant of Guinean cumbé music. However, it should be noted that the rhythm of Cumbia can be found in music of Yoruba , and in other musical traditions across West Africa. Cumbia started in the northern coast of South America, what is now Colombia and Panama, mainly in or around Cartagena during the period of and ballads A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music. Ballads were particularly characteristic of British and Irish popular poetry and song from the later medieval period until the 19th century and used extensively across Europe and later North America, Australia and North Africa. Many ballads were written and sold as single sheet. Gonzalez said, "We were actually more successful in California," "We did rock, and our sound was more international. People asked us if we were from Mexico." Hard to believe now, but people even said they couldn't dance to Mazz's music. The group realized it would to have to rediscover Tejano." Their first hit Laura Ya No Vive Aquí (Laura Doesn't Live Here Anymore) managed to capture their desired audience as planned. Soon after, their scheduled concert appearances drew more audience numbers and record sales improved. Releasing their first live album in the 1980s, Command Performance, large numbers of screaming fans can be heard in the background showing how much the signature Mazz sound had caught on to audiences. Their record sales soon began to rival that of fellow Tejano group La Mafia La Mafia is a four-time Grammy Award-winning musical group. It has its roots in the Northside neighborhood of Houston, Texas and has charted a course as a Latin Music band, a feature almost unheard of at the time.
Many music awards followed, not only for their high record sales, but also for their contributions to the start of the Tejano music boom. Both Sony Records and EMI Latin EMI Televisa Music, also known as EMI Latin and EMI International, is a subsidiary of EMI which focuses on Latin American music later took interest in the band and signed the group to their individual labels. Mazz's albums No Te Olvidare (which received a Grammy 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 ), Para Nuestra Gente, Una Noche Juntos, and Mazz Romanticos Que Nunca have all gone platinum Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped a certain number of copies. Mazz then became members of Freddie Records, owned by established Tejano singer Freddie Martinez, which helped promote new and already established Tejano music talents such as Ramón Ayala, Elida Reyna, and Michael Salgado Tejano singer/accordionist Michael Salgado gained prominence in the mid-'90s by looking back to the norteño sound influenced by Ramon Ayala, and introduced the style to the younger generation. He organized his backing band -- brothers Ernie and James on guitar and drums, respectively, with bass player Joe Tanguma -- when he was just 19, and begin.
Post-Mazz
In 1998 both lead singers Joe Lopez and Jimmy Gonzalez split the band, deciding to form their own groups. The following year Joe formed Joe Lopez y La Nueva Imagen Mazz while Jimmy formed Jimmy Gonzalez y el Grupo Mazz. Because of legal purposes,Lopez later would have to change the name simply to "La Nueva Imagen" instead of "La Nueva Imagen Mazz".Lopez,after issuing Mazz Fuerte Que Nunca, a mix of danceable Cumbias and Tejano style, EMI Latin released Fuerte, featuring the hit single "Atrapado."While Gonzalez and his version went on to release Quien Iva a Pensar.
Band members
First lineup:
- Joe Lopez, vocals
- Jimmy Gonzales, guitar and backup vocals
- Juan Murillo, bass guitar and backup vocals
- Hector Augusto Flores, keyboards
- Adolfo Garcia, drums
Second lineup
- Joe Lopez, lead vocals
- Jimmy Gonzalez, vocals and guitar
- Tommy Gonzalez, conga and sax
- Homero Esquivel, accordion
- Mario Gonzalez, bass guitar
- Brando Mireles, keyboard
- Adolfo Garcia, drums
- Ricardo Barron, percussion
- Rebecca Valadez Rebecca Valadez is a Latina singer, actress, and former member of the Tejano group, Mazz. She performed on the group's 2002 Latin Grammy award-winning album, Siempre Humilde. Her solo album, Rebecca Valadez, was nominated as "Best Tejano Album" for the 2006 Grammy Awards. Valadez was a backup singer on Janet Jackson's 1998-99 Velvet Rope, vocals
External links
- Jimmy Gonzalez My Space page
- Joe Lopez My Space page
- Freddie Records
- Mazz history
- Additional history
- Allmusic
- My Space fan page
- Joe Lopez guilty of rape
- Web site of singer Rebecca Valadez
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