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German Gonzalez

Born on November 8, 1972 in Bogotá Colombia, from a very young age he became very interested in music, especially that which underwent the most popular stations of the time; He liked to give his opinion about the songs, if they were good and they might have good acceptance before in the public. At the age of 13 he learned how to play the trumpet and becomes one of the main members of the band at his school, which emphasizes not only by their artistic ability, but also by their ability to direction and choreography within the band assembly.

At age 18, he decides to travel to the United States, Los Angeles, CA to continue with his music career and at the same time studies in Marketing and Management. At the age of 22, he starts his career in the music industry as an entrepreneur, having parties at home with DJ´S and local orchestras; His receptions and festivities were such a success, that a year later he decides to rent halls and popular clubs and hire more recognized groups in the Latino community to promote their events. By this time he was well recognized by the radio and television industry and he would take the different Latino groups to all radio and television stations with in the west coast area ( Los Angeles, CA and surrounding cities).

At 25 years of age he already had recognition with artist managers, programmers, presenters and announcers in the radio and television stations, and become one of the most respected businessmen in the Latin music industry. At the age of 26 he performs his first event with the renowned Group of salsa El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico and other local artists, being a success and obtaining the attendance of more than 6000 thousand people.

At the age of 31 he become such a great success with such a good strategy in the music business that he became recognized as a great entrepreneur of festivals in Los Angeles CA, filling venues of up to 20,000 people, with great recognized music artists as: Cabas, Tito Rojas, Tito Nieves, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Victor Manuele, Grupo Niche, Puerto Rican Power, Elvis Crespo, Willy Colon, La Makina and many more. 3 years later he promotes in the West Coast the new music gender called reggeaton, with artist such as: Daddy Yankee, Don Omar, Wisin y Yandel, Hector y Tito, Ivi Queen, Luni Tunes and Tego Calderon, with the realization of the first concerts of these reggeaton idols, becoming once again the pioneer and director of events in California of Latino Music in communities difficult to captivate such as the Colombian, Puerto Rican, Cuban and Central American communities.

As time passed by German Gonzalez becomes one of the main event producers in Los Angeles, CA producing major events such as: L.A. Latin Music Festival, L.A. Colombian Festival, Whittier Narrows Summer Fest. Hansen Dam Park 4th of July Event, Fiesta Broadway and more than five different stages at Fiesta Broadway. At this time well known sponsors such as Western Union, Coca-Cola, Ford, Red Bull, Budweiser and Miller Lite became interested in sponsoring and supporting his events; all this thanks to the success of his career and his professionalism. Based on all this success media companies like Telemundo, La Opinion, L.A. Times came together to become one of the strongest media partners at all his events.

At the age of 36 he moved to the city of Miami, FL. in order to continue his success and pass to the next level of his career and decides to open a night club in Miami Beach to promote all of his artists. A year later, he is offered to become a partner and the position of Vice President of Bigmoonrecords, recognized label with headquarters in Spain, with the aim of expanding the music market in Unites States and Europe.

In the month of February 2010, he decided to end his role of Vice-President at Bigmoonrecords to devote himself to the creation, development and execution of the contest Atrevete y Triunfa, a new concept of fully interactive online music competition. In order to promote the competition, he travels to different countries of Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean Islands and Spain to make commitments with radio groups, television networks and SMS providers. At the same time he continue to create relationships with different sponsors like Samsung, Subway, MAC Cosmetics, Inter-Continental Hotels and Copa Airlines. This concept was created to give the opportunity to any person without judging their economical or physical status, they will just have to upload a video into the AyT platform and from there share it with all their friends in Facebook and Twitter and then request for their friends to vote through any cell phone provider in their country and like this create the first International Singing Competition between countries with the purpose of finding the next Latin Singer Superstar. By selecting the most voted videos German Gonzalez created a format that will give the ability to broadcast semostonually in more than thirteen countries. The goal will be to pick three semi-finals, one in the United States, one in Colombia and one in the Dominican Republic and one great finalist where 12 contestants from 12 different countries which will be broadcast live from Los Angeles, CA. where they will compete for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place, this involves a cash price, music production, video production, booking and management of their career. This concept was presented originally to Telemundo and also Univision, where both great television networks have shown great interest in becoming the broadcasting network within the United States.

“Atreverte Es Tu Camino, Triunfar Tu Destino”