Rudy Pérez

Rudy Amado Pérez (born May 14, 1958) is a Cuban-born American musician, songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, sound engineer, musical director and singer, composed over 1,000 songs (over 300 of which have been number one or have reached the top 10 charts), and written and produced music for popular international artists such as Westlife, Natalie Cole, José Feliciano, Julio Iglesias, Luis Miguel, Raúl di Blasio, Jaci Velasquez, Cristian Castro, Christina Aguilera, Michael Bolton, Luis Fonsi, Marc Anthony, Toño Rosario, Jennifer Lopez, Il Divo, and Beyoncé.

He has won many music awards throughout his career, including being voted the most important Latin composer four times (four years), and winning the title of Producer of the Decade in 2010, awarded by Billboard to the producer with the most top 10 hits of the decade. He is the first Latin producer to win Billboards Producer of the Year award four years consecutively. to Baptist parents. His grandfather was a Baptist minister. Pérez's father, Rudy Amado, was a painter, who served as lieutenant in the army of Cuban former president Fulgencio Batista, and was imprisoned following the Cuban Revolution of 1959, due to his involvement in prior conflict with Castro's communist forces. The remainder of his family consisted of his mother, Elsa Pérez,

When Pérez was nine years old, his family emigrated to the United States, |group="note" leaving their home country to flee the political regime of Castro. The Pérez family moved to Miami, initially living in a refugee camp, He began singing at age two. It is reported that he was able to sing in perfect tune After hearing the music of Frédéric Chopin's pianist, He stayed in the group for five years and, at age twenty, left the group to produce and write songs for local Latino singers in Miami. and was allowed to live at the studio for a year and a half. He continued looking at the details of the recordings of albums and songs by other artists. He was determined to record his own songs and not just do demos for his friends. This album also won two Grammy Award nominations for production and the song "Ella" (She) in 1985. The album marked Feliciano's return to the elite of Latin music. Pérez became a professor of production and musical composition of their albums for two decades. for the first time. The success of his work with Feliciano opened the door for him to work with other singers. In 1992, WEA hired him to collaborate on the production of the record Aries by Luis Miguel, which meant he had to sign an exclusivity contract preventing him from producing for others until 1997. (also known as "Sencillos y otros"; in English: Singles and others), whose most played song was "Mi manera de querer" (My way of loving). However, the album was not very successful and Perez decided to focus only on his career as a composer.

In 2000, due to the success of their production of Spanish album by Jaci Velasquez in 1999, Pérez decided to produce the Spanish-language album by Christina Aguilera Mi Reflejo, through which he came into contact with Ron Fair RCA. This became one of the most successful albums in Spanish in the world, selling 1 million copies in the U.S. and another 2.5 million in the rest of the world, and won the 2001 Latin Grammy for "Best Female Pop Album".

In this year, Pérez also worked on the Jordi's album Tú no sospechas (in Spanish: "You have no idea"), on which he was responsible for 11 tracks. The album was released on October 8, 2002, to which was added a first single, the title track, produced by veteran stars as Alejandro Jaén.

In 2004, Pérez created his own record label: Rudy Pérez Enterprises, RPE.

In September 2009, he launched his second record label, Bullseye Productions. In 2014, Pérez released the single "Despues de ti... ¿Qué?", sung by himself on the Mother's Day.

Music in other media Pérez has also composed and produced numerous songs for other medias, In 1992 he was hired by Disney to work on pre-production on the song "Colors of the Wind" for the animated film Pocahontas.

His songs have not only been directed at singers, cinema and television. Between the end of the 1990s and early in the 21st century, he wrote and produced the official Olympic song to the Telemundo's Olympic coverage in English and Spanish, which was sung by Michelangelo Mejia. In 2011, he wrote the song "La fuerza del destino" with Mauricio Abaroa Suzarte, sung by Marc Anthony and Sandra Echeverría for the soap opera of the same title.

According to the journalist J. Freedorm du Lac, his singles have been used for various themes such as "breakups, makeups, courtships, wedding dances, babymaking, proms, self-pity sessions and bouts of teenage melodrama". which opened in October 2012, in Miami Beach, to honor the most important Latino composers (those whose first success was made more than 20 years ago ). According to them, the nonprofit organization's mission "is to educate, preserve, honor and celebrate the legacy of the greatest Latin songwriters from all over the world and their music in every genre while developing and inspiring new songwriters through workshops, showcases, scholarships and digital initiatives. The award is a statuette, "The Muse", that reflects his long history in music. For a composer, artist or song to be considered, they must be at least 20 years on the air.

The foundation was officially registered in 2012, and is in the development of the headquarters building, which will be a museum in the city of Miami that will show things related to Latin music, information about the great composers, history behind the songs and performers, and other educational information. The museum, sponsored by the American Songwriters Hall of Fame, will offer projects from art galleries and music, educational workshops, music classes and composition, educational scholarships and composition contests. Perez and Child plan to expand this foundation to Mexico and Argentina. The museum opened in 2014. The foundation plans to recognize music icons, first at composition and then in other categories in music. On April 23, 2013, the first awards gala was held in Miami, honoring seven iconic songwriters, including Manuel Alejandro, Jose Feliciano, José Ángel Espinoza "Ferrusquilla," Julio Iglesias, Armando Manzanero, Concha Valdés Miranda, and a posthumous recognition award for Roberto Cantoral.

The success of the songs he has composed and produced earned 30 gold records and 50 platinum. His work has been nominated for 19 Latin Grammy Awards,

"De Hoy en Adelante" "Después de Ti...¿Qué?"

2011 "Amor Quédate"

2012 "Mi Corazón Insiste" Pop Songs