Heard It On The X in 2005 (both albums included Raul Malo of The Mavericks among others). Another two albums followed – Canto in 2001 (also released live on DVD) and The group won a Grammy in 1998 for Best Mexican-American Music Performance for their self-titled debut album. In the late 1990s he joined an all-star group of Mexican-American singers, including members of Los Lobos, Freddy Fender, Ruben Ramos, and Flaco Jimenez, to create the supergoup Los Super Seven. The follow-up English album, Looking for the Light, was released in 1995 and included the top-ten hit "Bobbie Ann Mason." Trevino also recorded a Spanish version of the album, titled Un Rayo de Luz ("A Ray of Light"). The album's third single, "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry", became Trevino's first chart-topper, spending one week at the top of the Gavin Report country singles charts. This became the first mainstream country single to be released in both English and Spanish. It appeared in English on Rick Trevino and in Spanish on Dos Mundos, while a version of the song which combined the two languages was also released to radio.
Rick Trevino was certified gold (selling over 500,000 copies) and featured the hits "She Can't Say I Didn't Cry" and "Doctor Time." He released his debut single, "Just Enough Rope" ("Bastante Cordón") on September 7, 1993. Seven months later, in 1994, Sony released his first English album, Rick Trevino. "I didn't like that a bit because I didn't want people to think I was a Tejano artist.Everybody thinks I'm a Tejano singer crossing over to the country format." The album was certified gold (selling over 500,000 copies). Trevino, who is not a native Spanish speaker and needed lessons before he could record the album, was displeased with the decision. 1993: Dos Mundos Īt the insistence of Columbia Nashville, his first album, Dos Mundos, was an almost entirely Spanish country album. Trevino left school to pursue his music career. Buckingham made a special trip to Austin just to hear Trevino perform and signed him to Sony. Employees of the club gave him a tape of Trevino's music, which the label representative then passed onto music producer Steve Buckingham. Although Trevino was not performing that evening, the representative saw several articles on the walls which praised Trevino. In December 1991, a representative of the Sony label, Paul Jarosik, was stranded in Austin due to flooding conditions and visited a small club where Trevino regularly played. While a student, he played his brand of country music in local clubs. Although he was offered a baseball scholarship to Memphis State University, Trevino chose instead to study music at Texas A&M University.
Trevino graduated from Westwood High School in Austin, Texas. He plays rhythm guitar as well as keyboards. His music career began when he started taking piano lessons at the age of five. Trevino of Mexican descent, is the son of Ricardo Trevino Sr., a Tejano musician, and Linda Chavez. His highest-charting single, " Running Out of Reasons to Run", reached No. 1 on that chart in 1996. Trevino has charted a total of fourteen singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart and recorded seven studio albums. The song was included on his debut album Dos Mundos a self-titled album followed a year later. Signed to Columbia Nashville in 1993, Trevino began his career that year with the release of his debut single "Just Enough Rope", the first mainstream country music single to feature separate English and Spanish versions. (born May 16, 1971) is an American country music artist.
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