Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Gilbert Velasquez, born in Seguin, TX and raised in San Antonio, TX. President of “Velasquez Productions Inc.” in San AntonioTX, has been a part of “Tejano Music” since the mid ‘70’s. He began performingas 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 militarytroops overseas. After returning to San Antonio again in 1979 Gilbert joined theDavid Marez band “People” finishing the ‘70’s with this popular group at thattime. In 1980 he was asked to join the “Latin Breed” and thus began his quartercentury affiliation with this legendary band. In the ’80’s Gilbert worked closelywith 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 forcein 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 asa house engineer and a mixing engineer on live recording dates."@en }
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- Gilbert_Velasquez abstract "Gilbert Velasquez, born in Seguin, TX and raised in San Antonio, TX. President of “Velasquez Productions Inc.” in San AntonioTX, has been a part of “Tejano Music” since the mid ‘70’s. He began performingas 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 militarytroops overseas. After returning to San Antonio again in 1979 Gilbert joined theDavid Marez band “People” finishing the ‘70’s with this popular group at thattime. In 1980 he was asked to join the “Latin Breed” and thus began his quartercentury affiliation with this legendary band. In the ’80’s Gilbert worked closelywith 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 forcein 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 asa house engineer and a mixing engineer on live recording dates.".