Acting
Leroy Gomez
Born
1950-07-08 (76)
Place of birth
Wareham, Massachusetts, USA
Known for
Acting
Credits
3 titles
Leroy Gómez is an American singer-songwriter, best known for his work with 1970s disco and latin music act Santa Esmeralda. Leroy Gómez was born July 8, 1950 in Wareham, Massachusetts, of Cape Verdean descent. After learning how to sing and play the saxophone, Gómez started his own band at 14, and later joined Tavares, a local group of brothers who shared his Cape Verdean heritage, and with whom he would go on to tour in North America and Europe. In Paris, Elton John invited him to play the sax on Social Disease, a song on his 1973 classic album Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Amidst this success, Gómez decided to leave his band "Tavares" and remain in Europe, getting work as a session player …
Known for
6.0A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
1975
9.0No synopsis available yet.
La chanson de l'année
2004
7.0Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, would be inconceivable without a handful of legendary European music producers who conjured up some of the biggest world-wide hits in the anonymity of their studios.
Disco Europe Express
2019