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Singer Joe Lopez, featured in a decades-old file picture, was the frontman for influential Tejano band Grupo Mazz.
The Texas Expertise Musicians Affiliation (TTMA) has scrapped plans to offer Grupo Mazz singer Joe Lopez, a convicted intercourse offender, a Lifetime Achievement Award on the annual Tejano Music Awards this weekend.
The choice follows press studies on the controversial recognition and simmering anger from followers. Some Tejano music lovers mentioned Lopez’s prison report ought to disqualify him, whereas others accused the singer of attempting to take credit score for awards received after he left the band and former musical accomplice Jimmy Gonzalez carried on Mazz’s legacy, based on TTMA Vice President Frank Salazar.
“[The decision] was made this morning due to this public outcry,” Salazar informed the Present Wednesday afternoon. “We wanted to make some form of determination. It was exhausting, however [we] determined it was the appropriate factor to do.”
The awards present is scheduled to happen Saturday, Oct. 21, at San Antonio’s Boeing Middle at Tech Port.
In 2006, a Cameron County jury convicted Lopez on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a kid and one rely of indecency with a toddler on allegations that he raped his teenage niece two years prior, courtroom data present. Lopez was launched on parole in March 2018, and he stays on the Texas Public Intercourse Offender Registry.
Lopez and Gonzales have been each a part of the groundbreaking act Grupo Mazz, which blended pop and rock with Tex-Mex sounds. Lopez left to start out a solo profession within the late ’90s, whereas Gonzalez continued on with the renamed Jimmy Gonzalez y Grupo Mazz, which received a number of Latin Grammys.
In current weeks, Gonzalez’s followers accused Lopez of submitting a bio to the TTMA forward of receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award that implied he’d been in Mazz when it received the Latin Grammys. In an op-ed revealed on Wednesday urging the TTMA to not honor Lopez in mild of his prison report, the Categorical-Information incorrectly recognized Lopez as a Grammy winner.
Though Lopez will not obtain a Lifetime Achievement Award, he nonetheless may win particular person honors on the Tejano Music Awards, together with Tune of the Yr, Album of the Yr and Vocalist of the Yr, all of which he was nominated for.
“I imply, it is as much as the followers which are voting for that,” Tejano Music Awards press spokesman Felix Mendoza informed the Present.
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