Tato Gomez
Tato Gomez (born May 20, 1953 in Santiago de Chile ) is a German music producer, rock and pop musician of Chilean origin.
Gomez attended the German school in Santiago de Chile and then studied composition and arrangement at the University of Santiago. He has played the accordion since he was nine, and later took guitar, bass, vocal and piano lessons. At the age of fifteen he led his own band, with which he was under contract with RCA Records in Chile.
In 1972 he first moved to Spain, then to Germany in 1974. In Cologne he founded the band Santiago together with Mario Argandoña , with which he won the German Record Prize in 1979 . As the producer of Miguel Ríos (including Song Of Joy ), he took first places in the charts and won gold records in Spain and South America.
With Rainhard Fendrich's Macho, Macho he received a gold record in Germany in 1988 and platinum in Austria. He won multiple gold and platinum records with other titles by Fendrich ( I am from Austria ), with whom he produced a total of seven albums.
He also won a gold record in 1994 as the producer of Purple Schulz ( Sehnsucht , Verliebte Jungs ). At the end of the 1990s he was involved, again as a producer, in the comeback of Peter Kraus ( World Rock'n Roll , I'll go on ). He also produced the playbacks for the RTL show Deutschland sucht den Superstar . He composed the theme music for the RTL series Alle liebe Jimmy (2006-07).
Gomez also enjoyed international success with the "baby music" he invented ( Happy Baby series ) and with the collection of relaxation music under the title Art of Living . As a singer-songwriter , Gomez heads the group Tato Gomez & Friends .
Web links
- Tato Gomez's homepage
- Discography at Allmusic
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| SURNAME | Gomez, Tato |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music producer of Chilean origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 20, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |