Danny Flores

Daniel " Danny" Flores ( born July 11, 1929 in Santa Paula, California, † September 19, 2006 in Huntington Beach, California ), artist name Chuck Rio was an American rock ' n' roll musician. He composed and played the saxophone the number -one hit Tequila his band The Champs.

Career

Danny Flores came from the Chicano community of Los Ange reader metropolitan area. His musical influences were saxophonists Chuck Higgins, Big Jay McNeely and Joe Houston, the R & B style he has produced and enriched with the Latino members of his family environment. With his first band, the RD Ranch Boys, he won in the local club nicknamed "The Mexican Hillbilly ." He also played guitar and piano, with whom he hired himself out as a studio musician. So played out in November 1957, the Piano Burnettes on Dorsey rockabilly Title Bertha Lou.

Also in 1957 he founded with guitarist Dave Burgess, bassist Cliff Hills and drummer Gene Alden under his pseudonym " Chuck Rio " The Champs. For publication of Burgess composition Train to Nowhere on single Champs needed a B-side. The choice fell on an instrumental, for which the band the title Tequila devised. Flores not only played the roaring saxophone, but also gave the vocal interjections "Tequila ". 1958 reached the B- side of the top of the American Billboard charts and was Chuck Rios signature tune that he should give the next 40 years, at every possible opportunity for the best. Although the Champs suffered the fate of a one-hit Wonders, Chuck Rio was considered a " Godfather of Latino Rock" due to the world hits. However, Flores could not beat the expected profit from the title, since he sold his author's rights in the 1960s. Only the income from the overseas licenses ensured a livelihood for himself and his family. Flores died in 2006 leaving his wife, seven children and 15 grandchildren.