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Former Grupo Mazz frontman Joe Lopez says he’ll be a no present on the forty third Annual Tejano Music Awards.
Singer Joe Lopez, a convicted intercourse offender, advised followers Wednesday that he will not attend the Tejano Music Awards in San Antonio after organizers, responding to public outcry, scrapped plans to present him a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Texas Expertise Musicians Affiliation (TTMA), which places on the annual award present, just lately introduced plans to present Lopez the popularity. Nevertheless, it reversed course Wednesday after followers complained that Lopez, who sang for influential act Grupo Mazz, must be disqualified for his conviction. Some additionally accused the singer of taking credit score for the profession accolades of his former band accomplice Jimmy Gonzalez.
“With deep feeling, we announce to our beloved public that sadly we is not going to be current on the forty third Tejano Music Awards occasion for causes past our management and associated to the organizers of the occasion,” mentioned Lopez’s Fb publish, translated from Spanish to English. “We had anticipated with nice pleasure the chance to fulfill at this occasion. We respect everybody’s understanding and the help they’ve all the time given us; we sit up for the chance to fulfill at future occasions.”
The ceremony is scheduled for this Saturday on the Boeing Heart at Tech Port.
In 2006, a Cameron County Jury convicted Lopez on two counts of aggravated sexual assault of a kid and one depend of indecency with a baby on allegations that he raped his teenage niece two years prior, courtroom information present. Lopez was launched on parole in 2018 and stays on the Texas Public Intercourse Offender Registry.
Some followers threatened to protest this yr’s Tejano Music Awards if organizers went by with plans to present Lopez a Lifetime Achievement Award.
The household of former bandmate Gonzalez additionally voiced outrage on the TTMA’s resolution to honor Lopez. They allege the singer submitted a biography to the awards present by which he appeared to take credit score for Latin Grammys received by a Grupo Mazz after he left to pursue a solo profession in 1999.
Regardless of pulling out, Lopez might nonetheless win two Tejano Music awards he is been nominated for: Male Vocalist of the Yr and Tejano Album of the Yr. These awards are based mostly on the variety of votes an artist receives from followers.
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