El Vez.Works spiritual and sexual themes into his popular Elvis act Playing El Vez--the Chicano openly gay Elvis impersonator--since 1988 has put one major restriction on the life of the character's creator, musician Robed Lopez: He has to be very careful about cutting his hair. "Sometimes I want to go real short, like a buzz cut, but I can't because then I can't do the Elvis flip. I have to keep my sideburns side·burns pl.n. Growths of hair down the sides of a man's face in front of the ears, especially when worn with the rest of the beard shaved off. [Alteration of burnsides. long also." But otherwise, Lopez isn't at all tired of El Vez, with whom he has traveled to perform for amused and diverse crowds around the globe. (He even opened for David Bowie and the B-52's!) Lopez also performs with his punk band the Zeros and his bluegrass bluegrass, any species of the large and widely distributed genus Poa, chiefly range and pasture grasses of economic importance in temperate and cool regions. In general, bluegrasses are perennial with fine-leaved foliage that is bluish green in some species. band the Trailer Park Casanovas, but El Vez has provided him with both a life of adventure (he recently flew to Paris to sing at the famous Le Mans speedway) and an outlet for his political views. El Vez toured with his "El Vez for Prez prez or Prez n. pl. prez·zes or Prez·zes Informal President. Often used with the. " show during the 2000 election, and this fall he will tour for the new El Vez album, Boxing With God. Lopez describes this new music as an "Aztec sacrifice gospel show. Elvis loved gospel and was really interested in different theologies, like the cabala cabala: see kabbalah. cabala Jewish oral traditions, originating with Moses. [Judaism: Benét, 154] See : Mysticism and meditation. So it's taking those ideas and mixing them up and making them sexual and political and very Las Vegas Las Vegas (läs vā`gəs), city (1990 pop. 258,295), seat of Clark co., S Nev.; inc. 1911. It is the largest city in Nevada and the center of one of the fastest-growing urban areas in the United States. at the same time." |
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