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'''Rudy Pérez''' (born 1958) is a Cuban born musician, composer, [[musical producer|producer]], [[Arrangement|arranger]], [[Audio engineering|sound engineer]], singer,<ref name="TV y Novelas1"/> [[entrepreneur]] and [[Philanthropy|philanthropist]], whose area of specialty is [[ballads]]. Born in [[Cuba]], his family immigrated to [[Miami]] when he was 7. After learning to sing and play various musical instruments in the Baptist church to the that he and his family was attending, Perez joined several rock bands, between the that highlighted Pearly Queen (a popular 70s band in Miami). After the dissolution of the band, Perez began working in recording studios of Carlos Granado and, later, he worked in the studios of Pablo Cano. In those recording studios, he learned to compose and composed his first songs. After hearing one of his songs, Pablo Cano hired him to make their first album. So, in a promotion in [[Puerto Rico]], Perez knows [[Jose Feliciano]] who, after hearing one of his songs, decided to hire him to produce their next albums. The success of these albums made ​​Perez began to be requested by many singers such as
[[Julio Iglesias]] and [[Luis Miguel]], achieving great success in the songs he composed and produced and being honored by numerous awards throughout his career.
 
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In 2003, Perez launched a scholarship program of the ASCAP Foundation (Rudy Pérez Songwriting), which allows study for Hispanics that do not have resources and who have had little success in his compositions, but have a great talent, to study at prestigious music schools worldwide.<ref name="THSR" /><ref name="HolaMiami"/> So, he presented a check in the amount of 25,000 dollars for the start of the first scholarship. The scholarship will rotate annually among students from five universities. Those are the key points of the music industry: The first scholarship is awarded in Miami, and the others are given to the [[Juilliard School of Music]] at [[New York]], the National Conservatory of Music at Puerto Rico and High School of Art and music at the [[University of Texas at San Antonio]].<ref name="HolaMiami"/>
 
More late, In 2012, Perez and his partner David Frangioni developed an educational program for talented young musicians called IDA, whose role is to guide them and teach them to develop their musical talent. In the program, that however only lasts a week, a participant with great talent for music or singing is chosen by his team (formed by "great" composers, engineers, teachers of singing, of scenery and musicians), through its website, to be with the four main mentors (including Perez himself). According to Perez, through that program, the boy "goes a superstar" after he is only one week in the program. The program first was released in English and, in January 2013, was released in Spanish.<ref name="elpop"/>
== Curiosities ==
* Pérez reported that, while he worked for Pearly Queen, has decided to compose only English song. However, after he had been dating a Spanish rich girl in Miami, whose relationship was never accepted by her parents, who had sent her "away", making it impossible that he could maintain his relationship with sher, he heard the song of Julio Iglesias "Abrázame" (Hold me) and since this moment Pérez decided to also write songs in Spanish.<ref name="rudiments "/><ref name="washingtonpost"/>