国籍：美国 出生地：加利福尼亚州帕萨迪纳 职业：歌手、作曲家、唱片制作人 生日：1989年10月5日 简介：Gerardo Ortiz是一位美国墨西哥裔墨西哥歌手。 从艺历程：Mexican-American singer/songwriter Gerardo Ortiz has made a career of striking adelicate balance between hard-boiled narratives and ballads. He's one of the toppurveyors of narcocorridos-the story songs that detail (critics would say glorifyMexico's drug trade-and also one of Mexico's greatest balladeers, penning romanticlove songs that are just as persuasive and necessary as his corridos. Ortiz came to musicearly: Born in Pasadena, CA, in 1989, he moved to Mexico at age eight and began makingmusic around the same time. At 13, he moved to Mexico City to audition for Mexico's firstreality show aimed at children, Televisa's Código F,A.M.A. He earned a spot on the show,and that stroke of luck helped the precocious young man hone his skills as a dancersinger, and performer. His breakthrough came in 2010 with Ni Hoy Ni Ma±ana, an albumof hard-hitting corridos-mostly self-penned-hailed for their cinematic scope. Lifeunfortunately imitated art, however, and in 2011 he was ambushed after a concert. Hisdriver and his cousin/business manager were killed; he released the furious, verbosecorrido "Ramiro Caro" about the deaths later that year. But the experience seemed toforce a change in direction: Ortíz had been writing romantic ballads and giving them toother artists, but on 2011's Entre Dios y El Diablo, he kept one back for himself: "AmorConfuso" lt was a hit, and it established the singer's versatility. He's been richlyrewarded, with more No. 1 records than any other solo artist in Regional Mexican musichistory-including the great Vicente Fern¡ndez.