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Not many people know that Avy was a very accomplished DJ before he began producing hit records. Racking up numerous nominations by the Winter Music awards in 1985 for Best DJ in South Florida and best Night Club for The Banana Boat of Kendall where he spun records and booked acts.He left The Banana Boat to become the Road Manager for such groups as Expose' and Sequal. Through his business relationships his first studio experience was a remix of Erotic Exotic's "Take Me As I AM" with Al Fuentes and then colaborated with the members of Secret Society's Rudy Gil and Frank Lords to produce and mix his first project Genuine Parts "Did It Feel Like Love" which eventually was signed by Atlantic Records. Around that time, the three original Expose' members where released from their contracts and free to persue their solo career's. Avy and Sandee' agreed to perform "Your The One" & "Always Beside Me", Avy's first attempt's at song writting that became a huge national success with Atlantic Records. Avy went on to produce, mix and perform on The Beat Club,"Security". Avy took on a DJ job at Hot Wheels Skating Center in Kendall,FL to get a feel for bass music, the foundation for Security before going into the studio. He contacted the Whiz Kids to perform the scratch tracks and for those trademark edits. While in the studio, Avy came up with the idea of combining two scratch tracks answering each other in stereo that became an intrical part of the song. All the male voices you hear on Security are his. Avy also Co-Produced "Move Out" by Nancy Martinez (For Tonight) and produced three other Genuine Parts songs, "I Don't Care for You, Start Our Love Again and Show Me What to Do" all on Atlantic Records. He also worked on Independent projects such as Merci Mercy, "If There's a Chance & Looking for Love" both written, produced and mixed by Avy, Co-Produced Elaine Charles "Lay It On The Line", Co-Mixed Natasha's, "Just be Gentle with my Heart" and mixed Eddie B, "Time to Rock the House" on East West Bass records. Avy could not have had better musicians working with him than Fro Sosa (Nuclear Valdez), Rudy Gil & Frank Lords (Secret Society), Gus Caveda (Erotic Exotic) and Peter Marrero(Klave) who's work transcends the 80's Miami Sound and Keith Morrison's magic behind the controls as Sound Engineer. Last but not least, Avy can't forget about the man who made it posible to persue his dreams, Executive Producer and best friend Frank Gonzalez.When the Miami music scene slowed, Avy cashed in his chips and called it a career in 1991 having produced 7 Top 20 Billboard charting dance hits. He has two Legacies in charge of keeping the family music traditions alive. First, his lovely Neice in L.A, Adrianne, the first family college Grad from Berkley who has unbelievable talent as a folk song writter, singer, has a number of CD's and is touring all around the country. His Nephew, Garcia, the best unsigned Rap artist in Miami who has released a new CD, "Life Unscripted" and is a favorite on MTV.In March 2008, Avy was honored at the Miami Dance Music awards by receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution to the Miami Sound of the late 80's at Bongos Night club. He was reunited with many talented artist of the day and was inspired to get back into the studio one last time. He created a studio project named Co. Jones (play on words for the spanish word Cojones) to remake a dance version of the classic Alice Cooper smash hit, "Schools Out for Summer" reuniting with vocalist Orlando Nunez, released in July of 08.Avy now lives in the beautiful Hill Country of Austin, TX, the Live Music Capitol of the World where he now attends the Austin CC Honors Program to realize his life long dream of earning his Political Science / Economics Degree.
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