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Rudy Amado Pérez (born May 14, 1958) is a Cuban-born American musician, songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, sound engineer, musical director and singer, as well as entertainment entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His area of specialty is ballads, although he has also worked in a variety of other genres. Pérez has produced more than 70 albums, 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, 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 Billboard's Producer of the Year award four years consecutively. Pérez owns the record labels Rudy Pérez Enterprises (RPE) and Bullseye Productions. He is a founding partner and the Chief Creative Officer of DiGa Entertainment and the co-founder of the Latin Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (LARAS), the Latin Grammys. He was instrumental in the production of the premiere of the inaugural Latin Grammy Awards of 2000 and is on the board of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). In April 2013, Pérez (along with Desmond Child) created the Pabellón de la Fama de los Compositores Latinos (Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame; LSHOF), in Miami Beach, to honor the most important Latino composers and to drive them to continue creating Latin music. Early years Rudy Amado Pérez was born on May 14, 1958, in Pinar del Río, Cuba, to Baptist parents. His grandfather was a Baptist minister. Pérez's father, Rudy Amado, was a painter, religious minister and writer, 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, a seamstress, who made fine clothes and baskets, and three siblings (two sisters and a brother). When Pérez was nine years old, his family emigrated to the United States, leaving their home country to flee the political regime of Castro. The Pérez family moved to Miami, initially living in a refugee camp, but soon settled in Liberty City, Florida. Pérez discovered his interest in music as a child, influenced by bolero and rock music. He began singing at age two. It is reported that he was able to sing in perfect tune and he used any object like a musical instrument. After hearing the music of Frédéric Chopin's pianist, Pérez was inspired to become a musician and learn to play the piano. He began singing and playing in the choir at the neighborhood Baptist church in the same year that his family arrived in the US, under the tutelage of the ministers, who taught him to sing and to play the guitar and piano. Pérez was also influenced by the African-American community, being subsequently introduced to R&B and gospel music. At age twelve, Pérez worked for a company that manufactured barbed wire to buy an electric guitar (since his parents, according to Pérez, could not afford to pay for it). After a year of work he was able to buy the guitar, his first musical instrument, although he could not play it for three months due to the hand injuries he received working at the factory. He then began private guitar lessons. Throughout his teenage years he worked at hardware stores, gas stations and as valet to buy instruments and amplifiers. Pearly Queen Pérez quit school to join several rock bands in his neighborhood, until at age 15 he was invited to join the group Pearly Queen, a top 40 cover band that was popular in Miami in 1973. The group sang in English and was required to play the "hit" songs of the time. They won a contract to play for the Big Daddy Flanigan clubs in both the US and Canada (90 venues), playing five sets per night for five or six nights per week. The interpretations of the band in these clubs provided to Perez an introduction to music production, as he was responsible for the arrangements of the versions that the band played. He decided to study the arrangement and the recording of music. The band pitched two albums: Treasure Hunt (1974) and Disco? (1976) and had four singles and EPs: "Miénteme" (Move On), "Quit Jive' In" (Jungle Walk), "Adoro" (More) and "Understanding" (Young In Love; Yo Lo Comprendo). 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. Composing career Miami Sound Studios and songwriter career starts Later, Pérez began working as a gofer at Miami Sound Studios, in the studio of Carlos Diaz-Granados (doing things such as cleaning the studio or fetching food for the people who worked there), He lived in the studio for two years, according to Perez, because he "was just going through a divorce". He lived, cleaned and slept there. He "watched and learned all the details" about the musical work, and learned engineering. In 1983, he began working at Pablo Cano's studios Clímax, in North Miami on 30th Street, where he worked as an unpaid intern, 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. According to Pérez, he was discovered by Pablo Cano's niece, when she heard him perform a song he had composed. She showed Cano a ballad that Pérez had written, and Cano decided to hire him permanently, "paying him a good salary", to make an album with him. Thus, Pérez got his first opportunity as a composer: Cano offered him to record with a band and to submit him to a company of musical albums. The band composed four songs, and Pérez gave his songs to top arrangers who asked for his material. After a while, however, he wasn't comfortable with the changes being made to the songs and he decided to make this song the way he "felt them". During this time, he began working with other artists who he met at the studio, such as Roberto Carlos and Gloria Estefan, and continued studying music. Finally, in 1983, Pérez released the album ¿Qué voy a hacer sin tí? (What am I going to do without you?), with a promotional song by the same title. Jose Menendez, who was working at RCA Records at the time, heard the album and decided to hire him. This is when Pérez became a producer. A few weeks later, while he was on a promotional tour of his manager, Pablo Cano, in Puerto Rico, he met José Feliciano, for whom Menendez h.... Discover the Rudy Perez popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rudy Perez books.