David G. Cortes
Houston, Texas, United States | Established. Jan 01, 2011 | INDIE
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"He is a contagious discharge of energy for his powerful elegant sonoric funk, folk, soul, bossanova and light rock..." - David Dorantes-La VOZ Houston Chronicle
"I really appreciate your compliment!!!! Man im really Lovin your music!!!!, your style, everything!!!... my fav is come back home!!! love the Melodie and the words... man you are very very talented much respect!!! keep bringin great songs... i am now a big fan and you have my support!!! :-)" - Je' Brooj
Beautiful. I love the choice of majestic Colorado as the visual "music" accompanying the retrospective lyrics and tune of "Call to Me". Very nice choice--you have a good eye for pairing words/genre of music with visual images. Great! - Sheri
Wow, you have an awesome sound and the video is beautiful! I've taken film production classes in college, so I appreciate all the work that went into your video. Your music is fantastic, and yes we'd love to feature it on KILR Radio. " - STARFOX WHITESTAR
"loving and then I met you ... great melody line and top harmony work :)" - Sirling
"You're a number 1 in my book! Great variety of music...you have." - Cynthia
"We really like what we heard so far..." - WESFIELD RECORDING COMPANY
"THIS SONG (Come Back Home) WAS GREAT. THANK YOU FOR WRITING IT AND DEDICATING? IT TO OUR SERVICE PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD." - Mary in St. Louis
"GREAT MUSIC! Keep it up! One day you will headline the Houston? Rodeo ;-)" - MR.REDD
" David, Nice tune (And Then I Met You) and sweet guitar playing. " - WILDMAN RADIO
"Hi David, Love the song 'And Then I Met You'. I would love to place the song in rotation on the station. Sincerely, " - FULL GAUMONT RADIO
Discography
AND THEN I MET YOU (Released-Nov.18th, 2013)
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FACT SHEET:
· Born in Monterrey, Mexico but living in Houston, TX since 2004.
· Started playing since age 9. Multi-Instrumentalist (Voice, Guitar, Drums, Piano, Bass).
· Multilingual. Speaks four languages fluently (English, Spanish, French & Italian.
· ELK Records Music, recording artist.
· Appeared in over 14 TV Shows and 12 Festivals in the last 18 months.
· Over +34k Fans and Followers in social media.
· YouTube videos with more than +165k hits.
· His debut LP TIME AWAY BUT HOME AGAIN’ released in November 2013, with 10 songs.(All Music & Lyrics written and recorded by David), 8 songs in English/2 in Spanish.
· On the FMQB and CMJ Charts, the 1st Single ‘And Then I Met You’ ended on #63. The 2nd Single ‘Como Quisiera’ ended on #57. The 3rd Single ‘Hoy, Mañana y Siempre’ peaked at #36 rotating in over 190 stations. The 4th Single ‘Come Back Home’ just reached #31 on the week ending February 9th, 2015.
· On January 27, 2015 ‘Come Back Home' was chosen by –Square Eyed Pictures, LTD (London, ENG)- for their upcoming documentary 'While They Watched'. The documentary follows the story of now internationally famous Yeonmi Park, celebrity defector from North Korea, with TV distribution in the UK, USA and South Korea coming soon.
· Working on Follow up CD album for late 2015 release.
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