Manuel Manny Flores Jr.

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Manny Flores Jr. was born in El Paso, Texas on October 9, 1954.Due to his father's military career, Manny spent his first eighteen years of life as an army brat, traveling and listening to music in a variety of different places.These places include Fort Sill, Oklahoma; Augusta, Georgia; Ansbach, Bavaria; Fort Benning, Georgia; and Fort Huachuca, Arizona.He began his playing career in the summer of 1971 at a gig at the Fort Huachuca NCO Club two weeks after he had picked up the bass and had intensive coaching from Japanese rock guitarist Danne "Masahiro" Wakatani.
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Manny graduated from Buena High School in Sierra Vista in l972.He went to Europe that summer and visited the birthplaces of Ludwig von Beethoven and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and also Apple Recording Studios in London.He then graduated from Cochise College in Douglas Arizona in 1974 with an Associates degree in Liberal Arts.In 1975 he moved back to El Paso.He begin playing in various groups in the El Paso area including Top 40 groups and Country and Western groups doing the Dyer Street circuit and road gigs in New Mexico, Wyoming and Arizona He enrolled at the University of Texas at El Paso.He received his Bachelor of Music Education degree in 1982.

In 1983 he auditioned for and began playing with the El Paso Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Maestro Abraham Chavez Jr.He also began teaching instrumental music in the Ysleta Independent School District.
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In 1985 Manny began the first of a four-year trek to Victoria, B.C. Canada to attend the prestigious Johannesen International School of the Arts.
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Manny has played with a variety of groups in El Paso including: Bobby Saunders, Frank Dove and the Sundowners, Mario Otero, Crossroads, El Paso Brass Quintet, Bobby Booth Dixieland Band, M.D. Quartet, Hare Krishna Temple, Mike Carranda Big Band, Eddie Carranza Big Band, U.T.E.P. Lab Band I with Gene Lewis, Mike Francis Quartet, Jimmy Olivas Big Band, Gerald Hunter and the Quintones, Art Lewis and the Earthmen, Orchestra Puerto Rico, Marty Olivas and Jazz Q Spice of Life, Bing Browning Trio, Cecile Larochelle.
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1995 was also the year Manny formed "Mariachi Riverside" at Riverside High School.He began his studies on the guitarron with Randy Carillo of Mariachi Cobre of Epcot in Disneyworld.This student group has performed in countless venues in the Southwest and in Tucson, Arizona; Las Cruces New Mexico; Atotonilco, Tecalitlan, Ameca, Tlanquepanque and many venues in Guadalajara, Jalisco.In March of 2000 the group is invited to Mexico City to play at the First Annual Mariachi Conference of that city.

In 1998 Manny made his first trip to Rio de Janeiro, Brasil to fulfill a lifelong desire to experience Brasilian music firsthand and to meet one of his favorite musicans Hermeto Pascoal.
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Jesse Granato in the Northwest Side ward because Flores is a better advocate for education.
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We need an advocate for education and Manny Flores is it."
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Flores, 31, a Cook County assistant state's attorney, received more votes than Granato on Feb. 25, but not enough to avoid a runoff.
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Flores is making his first run at political office and has received the support of several high profile Hispanic elected officials, including state Reps.
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Feel free to email Manny with any questions, comments, or concerns at mail@floresforfirst.com.
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