El Vez

Part satire, part performance art, part show biz spectacle, and part social and political commentary, El Vez is an artist who takes a fistful of seemingly contradictory cultural signifiers and brings them together while exploding into a dazzling ball of entertainment. Most simply described as "the Mexican Elvis," El Vez takes the look, sound, and lore of an American icon and filters it through the Mexican-American experience. The songs often add traces of norteño, ranchero, and mariachi to arrangements rooted in first-generation rock & roll while revising the lyrics into songs...