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about||the village in the Czech Republic|Vež|the region of France|Vez El Vez (born 1960)"El Vez", St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture , Thomson Gale 2005–2006. http://www.bookrags.com/El_Vez reproduced online at BookRags.com and accessed online 28 April 2007. is the stage name of Robert Lopez , a Mexican people|Mexican - United States|American rock and roll artist, http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html? v_id=242049 El Rey De Rock 'N' Roll, short film review on the site of the New York Times . Accessed online 31 October 2006 who performs and records original material and covers classic rock songs. Mixing the styles of Elvis Presley and many other American rock artists with his own Latin America|Latin-American heritage and music, he is known for expressing revolutionary views through the satire and humor in his songs.Allmusic|class=artist|id=p25117/biography|pure_url=yes El Vez Biography, Allmusic . Accessed online 28 April 2007.
Lopez got his start in music playing guitar for the punk band The Zeros (American band)|The Zeros . As El Vez, he 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 ; on his recordings and in his live show, he covers many non-Mexican artists, such as David Bowie , Iggy Pop , John Lennon , Bob Dylan , Paul Simon , T. Rex (band)|T. Rex , Queen (band)|Queen and the Beatles . Also known as the "Thin Brown Duke",Michelle Habell-Pallan, "El Vez( The Time ) is 'Taking Care of Business': The Inter/national Appeal of Chicano Popular Music", Cultural Studies , Volume 13, Issue 2, April 1999, p. 195–210. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a738570137~db=all Abstract accessed online 28 April 2007. "The Chicano Elvis",Citation needed|date=February 2007 or "The Mexican Elvis", he got his start in the Latino punk band The Zeros (American band)|The Zeros , and played in Catholic Discipline with the folk singer Phranc .
El Vez was once a contestant on the game show To Tell the Truth .Citation needed|date=July 2009
Discography
Albums
1994 - How Great Thou Art (the cover art is a play on Elvis Presley's How Great Thou Art (Elvis Presley album)|How Great Thou Art album)
1994 - Fun in Español
1994 - Graciasland (the cover art is a play on Paul Simon 's Graceland (album)|Graceland )
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