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Title: El Vez, "The Mexican Elvis"
Alternative Title: Los Angeles Herald Examiner Photo Collection
Creator: Snowe, Lucy
Date Created and/or Issued: Circa 1988
Contributing Institution: Los Angeles Public Library
Collection: Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection
Rights Information: Images available for reproduction and use. Please see the Ordering & Use page at http://tessa.lapl.org/OrderingUse.html for additional information.
Description: Photograph used for the weekly alternative music column Nite Flash; Photograph included in the Exhibit: From Pop to the Pit, The LAPL Photo Collection Celebrates the L.A. Music Scene, 1978-1989.
El Vez performs classic rock with a Latin American flair, paying tribute to artists such as Elvis Presley, David Bowie, Marc Bolan and Freddie Mercury. He was a member of The Zeros, an early Los Angeles punk band.
El Vez, a.k.a. Robert Lopez, with the Elvettes.
Type: image
Format: 1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm.
Photographic prints
Identifier: 00054867
Herald Examiner Collection
HE box Musical Groups--El Vez
CARL0000063070
http://173.196.26.125/cdm/ref/collection/photos/id/22670
Subject: El Vez
Presley, Elvis,--1935-1977--Portraits
Singers--United States
Mexicans--Clothing
Men--California--Los Angeles
Women--California--Los Angeles
Group portraits
Portrait photographs
Los Angeles Herald-Examiner photographs
Herald-Examiner Collection photographs
Time Period: 1981-1990

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