I WAS BORN IN A SMALL TOWN OF CHARLOTTE,TX NEAR POTEET,TX...I AM THE YOUNGEST OF 21 CHILDREN FROM MR. AND MRS PABLO GONZALES...I'M A SELF TAUGHT LEFT HANDED ACCORDIAN PLAYER THAT STARTED PLAYING DRUMS AT THE AGE OF 5...MY BROTHER'S HAVE BEEN PLAYING SINCE THE EARLY 1960'S I WAS INSPIRED BY WATCHING THEM PRACTICE WHEN I WAS GROWING UP...PRACTICALLY MY WHOLE FAMILY ARE MUSIC ORIENTATED...I HAVE 3 BROTHER'S THAT PLAY THE ACCORDIAN...MY BROTHER JOE, SANTOS AND LUPE...MY BROTHER ROBERT,LUPE AND AND ARNOLD PLAY THE BASS...MY BROTHER CLETO,DEMETRIO AND ANDRES PLAY THE GUITAR...MY BROTHER JOHNNY AND ME PLAY THE DRUMS...AND ALL MY 4 SISTER'S CAN SING...WE PRACTICALLY CAN MAKE A BAND OF OUR OWN BUT EVERYBODY LIKES DIFFERENT STYLES OF MUSIC...I MYSELF LIKE CONJUNTO WHICH IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES...ALSO TEJANO AND NORTENO...I STARTED PLAYING WITH MY BROTHER'S BAND IN 1978 WHEN I WAS JUST 11 YEARS OLD...MY BROTHER'S PLAYED WITH THE BANDOLEROS DE JUAN AGUILAR BROTHER OF LOS AGUILARES OF SAN ANTONIO,TX...JUAN AGUILAR WAS THE DRUMMER BUT ALWAYS LET ME SIT IN FOR ABOUT 45 MINUTES EACH NIGHT...4 YEARS PAST AND MY BROTHER'S TOOK ANOTHER TURN IN TEJANO MUSIC,ASWELL AS I DID TOO...I STARTED LIKING THE ACCORDIAN BUT MY BROTHER TOLD ME THAT I COULDN'T LEARN TO PLAY BECAUSE I WAS LEFT HANDED...AND IT WOULD BE TOO HARD TO SHOW ME...ANYWAY I WAS DETERMINED TO LEARN SO LITTLE BY LITTLE EVERYDAY I WOULD PRACTICE...MY FIRST POLKA I LEARNED WAS VIVA SEGUIN AND THE REST IS HISTORY...AT 18 YEARS OLD I JOINED THE ARMY AND CAME BACK IN 1991...I AM A VETERAN OF DESERT STORM AND PROUD TO HAVE SERVED FOR MY COUNTRY...IN DECEMBER 1991 I AUDITIONED FOR SHELLY LARES AND GOT HIRED ON THE SPOT...I TOURED WITH SHELLY UNTIL 1997..AFTER SHELLY I HELPED OCCASIONALLY UNTIL SHE FOUND AN ACCORDIAN PLAYER...IN 2000 I COULDN'T STAY AWAY FROM THE MAIN STREAM SO I AUDITIONED FOR MARCOS OROZCO AND WAS HIRED THAT DAY...I PLAYED WITH MARCOS UNTIL 2003 THEN I CALLED IT QUITS...TODAY I STILL HAVE THE URGE TO PLAY ,BUT I WANT TO PLAY WHAT I ENJOY PLAYING...THAT IS PURO CONJUNTO MUSIC...
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