Rudy Pérez

Rudy Pérez

Rudy Perez is a Cuban American composer, producer and Sound engineer, whose songs have been very successful. He is considered one of the most outstanding creators in the field of international pop music. His facility to write and produce hits makes him one of the top most sought after producer /songwriters in the music industry. To have a Rudy Perez song in your repertoire usually guarantees immediate success. Numerous top ten hits that his compositions have achieved during the last 20 years and any of them have remained in the top 1 for many consecutive weeks (between 9 and 11 weeks). He has composed over 600 songs written and produced hits for international artists such as Julio Iglesias, Raul di Blasio, Jaci Velasquez, Christian Castro, Christina Aguilera, Luis Fonsi, Marc Anthony, Jennifer López, Luis Miguel and Jose Feliciano among others. His songs have been very successful as he won the Hot Latin Songs, being also the first composer and producer Hispanic win. He was chosen as producer of the year for four consecutive years. Also, the success of the songs he has composed and produced what has earned 30 gold records and 50 platinum and his work has been nominated also for 19 Latin Grammy,of which he got 5. He has been voted the most important Latin composer. He also won the title of Producer of the Decade in 2010, awarded by Billboard the most successful producer who had over ten years in the public's preference lists. He was elected the first president of the Florida branch (now a full chapter) of NARAS, and was instrumental in the establishment of the first Latin Grammy Awards, which premiered in 2000 .

Early years

Rudy Perez was born in Cuba in 1958 and he came from a Baptist family (his father was Baptist minister). Since he was two years old he sang perfectly in tune the songs he heard and he used as an instrument any object.

When he had 6 years, he, his parent, two sister and a brother moved to Miami and they estableced Liberty City. He discovered his interest for music as a child, when he heard music of composer and pianist Frederic Chopin. This was what he did that he wanted to be a musician. From this moment, and influenced also by the music of Miami, frequent in this, he began studying guitar, piano and batery and he introduced especially R&B and gospel music. Pérez sang in the choir and he played in the Baptist church in the neighborhood. Then he was part of several rock bands in his neighborhood until he was invited to join the group Pearly Queen (a Top 40 cover band, which was very successful in Miami in 1973), when he had 15 year. The group won a contract to play in all Big Daddy Flanigan Clubs in the U.S. and Canada-90 clubs playing five sets a night, five or six nights a week. He remained in the group for five years. In these clubs he learned to produce music. They had to play hit songs of the moment. Because he had to make arrangements for those songs, Perez decided to learn has to do musical arrangements and recordings. At twenty years after leaving the group, he produced and wrote songs for some local singers Latinos in Miami. Later, he began working as a gofer at Miami Sound Studios. In 1983, he began to tax in North Miami on 30th Street. He used to sleep there, because he was going through a divorce. He was determined to record their own songs and he would not give tax for the bands of his friends. One day the owner, Pablo Cano, heard a ballad he had written and he decided to do an album with Rudy. This album was what made Jose Menendez, who was then working at RCA Records, decided to hire him.

This is where he became a producer. A few weeks later, while he was on a promotional tour of Pablo Cano, Puerto Rico, he met José Feliciano, which Menendez had played their version of "¿Qué voy a hacer sin tí?" (What Am I Going to Do Without You?). Feliciano asked him to produce his next album. Rudy produced most of "Ya soy tuyo" (I'm already yours) by José Feliciano and this album reached number one with "Me has echado al olvido" (you was thrown into Oblivion). This album also won two Grammy Awards Nominations for the Producer of album and song "Ella" (She) in 1985. Which made a return to Feliciano Classification largest Latinos for a long time. This album Rudy became professor of production and musical composition of their albums for two decades.

Musical career

He began his career in 1983 and since then he has composed over 600 songs for other artists. In 1986, the song "Le Lai The" Recorded by Jose Feliciano earned him Rudy Perez a Grammy Award for Producer of "Best Latin Pop Performance" and in 1988 he was first time elected "Producer of Year". In 1993, he won another Grammy Award for Producer and Songwriter for the "Best Latin Pop Album "Aries" Recorded by Luis Miguel. In 1994, Rudy Perez pitched his first (and only) album: "Sencillos y otros" (Singles and others), whose most sounded song was "Mi manera de querer" (My way of loving). In 1997, Pérez wrote and produced the spectacular career launching record “Lo Mejor De Mi” for Mexican Balladeer Cristian Castro (BMG US Latin) an album that yielded the hits “Lo Mejor de Mí” which spent an precedented 90 weeks on the charts, “Despues De Ti…Que?, and “Si Tú Me Amaras”. This album reached #1 on Hot Latin Tracks of 1997 and it also received a Grammy Award nomination for Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album of 1998. The title track was included in the 1999 compilation recording Billboard Latin Music Awards Superstar Hits. A chart-topping album that, along with "De hoy En Adelante” and “Una Voz En El Alma” of Millie, also composed by Rudy Perez, won an ASCAP Award in the 2000. In that year (1997) Ricky Martin right also reached #1 on Hot Latin Tracks of 1997 and was included in the 1999 compilation recording Billboard Latin Music Awards Superstar Hits. In 1999 he also got the Ace Awards for "Senor Bolero" for "Album of the Year" by Jose Feliciano Recorded. He also won a concession of the dove through the production of the album by Christian artist Jaci Velasquez "Llegar A Ti" in 1999 and yielding the beautiful ballad “Solo Tú” which went top 10 on Billboard’s Latin chart. In this year, he gets the ASCAP Award as "Songwriter of the Year".

In 2000, Rudy Perez produced the album by Luis Fonsi, "Eterno" and he composed seven of the thirteen songs on the album, including the success "Imagíname Sin Ti" (imaginame without you) and its English version.

In 2001, After the success of their production of Spanish album by Jaci Velasquez, Rudy decides to produce Spanish-language album by Christina Aguilera "Mi Reflejo", for which he came into contact with Ron Fair RCA. This album became one of the albums in Spanish in the world making the sale of 1 million copies in the U.S. and another 2.5 million in the rest of the world and awards, together with 2001 a Latin Grammy for "Best Female Pop Album". The success of this album and the Grammy Award he received enabled him to work with great success Anglophone artists in the United States or the world, producing and composing songs in Spanish for singers like Westlife,or Michael Bolton. He also wrote songs on all albums from Il Divo, and he produced Beyonce's Spanish album "Back to B-Day", nominated for Grammy. After Rudy's work in the music of these artists, they decided that he also worked with them in their songs in English. Thus, his work with Jaci Velasquez, produced the song "Imagine Me Without You," which was adapted into English of the song produced earlier for he to Luis Fonsi "Imaginame sin ti" and it was nominated for a CMA - Dove Award for Best Song of the Year.

The success of many of his songs have managed to achieve these reach the top ten hits. In 2002 the song he produced for Pilar Montenegro was the first to hit the number 1 while in this position for 13 consecutive weeks. After this, he continued composing and producing songs that also have to tear up at the billboard and have also reached No. 1 on it. Like Pilar Montenegro, another of his songs have reached number one, remained for many weeks, as is the case of the song "El Dolor De Tu Presencia" by Jennifer Peña, also produced in 2002, remained at No. 1 for nine weeks. Thus, during that time, his productions were able, together, stay 22 consecutive weeks at no. 1. In this year, Rudy Perez also worked on the album Jordi "Tú no sospechas" (You have no idea), in which he was responsible for 11 tracks. The album was released on October 8, 2002 To which was added a 1st single which gave title track, produced by veteran stars as Alejandro Jaen. The song "Tú no sospechas" was the only song on the album that sounded all over the U.S. and some countries of Latin America, appearing in the charts most important of these countries. In 2oo4, Rudy Perez created his own record label: Rudy Pérez Enterprises, RPE.

In 2005, Rudy Perez was elected as a Latino producer / songwriter of the year. On April 23, 2007, the global electronic community elHood.com announced a revolutionary collaboration with Rudy Perez and DIGA Entertainment. This union allows Perez to produce a series of musical projects directly with music fans. The first project was an album for singer and actress Pilar Montenegro. He also won in January 2010 the title "Producer of the Decade" award from Billboard to the producer who had more success over ten years in public preference lists.

In other media

Rudy Perez has also composed and produced numerous songs for television, they have played in movies, soap operas, sitcoms, commercials or music television channels such as temporary officers. Rudy wrote and produced music for advertising companies like AT&T for which he wrote and produced the music for the “True Voice” and “Leadership” advertising campaigns, sung by Jon Secada. In 1992 he was hired by Disney to work on pre-production on the song "Colors of the Wind" for the animated film "Pocahontas". Thus, Perez was the original song online Univision, which was produced in 1995 and still works. But her songs have been directed not only singers and television: Between the end of the nineties and early twenty-first century, he wrote and produced the official Olympic song for Telemundo Olympic coverage of simultaneous historical s / NBC 'in English and Spanish and sung by Michael Angelo.

Rudy also wrote the football song "Let The World," the official song of the 2002 World Cup which was conducted by Jennifer Peña. In 2003, Perez launched a scholarship program of the ASCAP Foundation (Rudy Perez Songwriting), which allows to Hispanic composers who have had little success in composicions study at prestigious music schools worldwide.

His single also been used for breakups, makeups, courtships, wedding dances, babymaking, proms, self-pity sessions and bouts of teenage melodrama.

Personal life

Rudy Perez is married and he has five children. According to him, life inspired by his songs, however, he only writes about what he would like to live. He admires to the artist Frédéric Chopin, Giacomo Puccini, George Gershwin, The Beatles, Brian Wilson, Charles Aznavour, Stevie Wonder and Manuel Alejandro.

External links

• Musictory: Rudy Perez Chords (In Spanish).
• Rudy Perez Discos en Yahoo! Música (Rudy Perez Albums on Yahoo! Music)(In Spanish).
• http://autos.batanga.com/player/new/default.asp?detspd=1 Rudy Pérez:Un compositor a gran escala (In spanish)