He is a trumpeter, producer and artist born in Los
Angeles.He became a member of the Tijuana Brass and during the 1960s and
1970s they were known for having made Latino music popular.He became a popular artist in his
own right and saw chart hits with songs that include "Rise" and "Route
101
".He is
in the Guinness Book of Records
for having five albums in the Billboard Charts simultaneously and is the
only star to have No. 1 hits with a vocal and an instrumental song.He is the "A" of A&M
records and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.He still plays the trumpet but
devotes time to his second career as an abstract expressionist painter and
sculptor as well as being a Broadway theatre producer.
