Cruz Martínez

Most widely known for his contentious tenure within a.B. Quintanilla y los Kumbia Kings, Cruz Martínez can be an achieved keyboardist, songwriter, arranger, and manufacturer whose credits consist of La Sombra, Los Kumbia Kings, Los Super Reyes, and his wife, local Mexican superstar Alicia Villarreal. Delivered stateside of Mexican traditions, Martínez started playing piano at age group 12 and became a member of the tejano music group La Sombra at age group 16, adding to albums including Porque Te Quiero (1991), Mas Que Amor (1992), Iluciones (1993), Mas Que Todo (1995), Caliente Dulce Amor (1996), and Alborotados (1997). Martínez started dealing with Quintanilla soon after the loss of life of Selena, the latter’s superstar sister; they proved helpful jointly on “No Quiero Saber,” a tune through the posthumous record Siempre Selena (1996). Quintanilla eventually invited Martínez to become listed on his brand-new group, Los Kumbia Kings, you start with the group’s debut record, Amor, Familia y Respeto… (1999). Successive Kumbia Kings albums offering Martínez consist of Shhh! (2001), All CONFUSING: Los Remixes (2002), 4 (2003), Presents Kumbia Kings (2003), La Historia (2003), Los Remixes 2.0 (2004), Fuego (2004), and Duetos (2005). As an associate of Los Kumbia Kings, Martínez not merely contributed keyboards but additionally songwriting, arrangements, creation, engineering, and blending; alongside Quintanilla, he was a generating power behind the group’s great commercial achievement. But Martínez and Quintanilla sadly experienced a longstanding disagreement which was shown out bitterly in public areas and became tabloid fodder, partially since it also included Villarreal. To produce a lengthy story brief, Martínez and Quintanilla proceeded to go their separate methods, forming the particular splinter groupings Los Súper Reyes and Kumbia All-Starz. Because the head of Los Súper Reyes, Martínez debuted in 2007 with Un Regreso de Los Reyes, which demonstrated well-known, topping Billboard’s Regional Mexican Albums graph and peaking at number 3 at the top Latin Albums graph, driven to achievement partly due to the hit solitary “Muévelo.”