Roberto Vazquez – Las Vegas performer

Performer

Roberto Vazquez

Live in Las VegasQueen Selena and Sinatra Live!

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Spirited and passionate, Cuban-born musician and composer Roberto Vazquez’s soul has always communicated mainly through the language of music. At 8 yrs old he began his musical studies in his hometown of Santa Clara, Cuba and continued on to the National School of Music where he later graduated with degrees in French Horn and Piano.

Since then his musical career has taken many eclectic twists and turns and given him the opportunity to play in such prestigious and diverse settings as shows, television appearances, tours and recordings with numerous celebrities of the American mainstream and Latin music world such as Marion Meadows, Ricardo Montaner, Carlos Vives, Francisco Cespedes, Laura Pausini, Silvio Rodriguez, Brenda K Star, Ed Thigpen, Albita Rodriguez, Diango, Alejandra Guzman, Malena Burke, Ilan Chester & Chayanne, Marc Anthony, Marco A Solis among others.

His television appearances have included the Latin Grammys, Sabado Gigante, Despierta America, Escandalo TV and Don Francisco Presenta to name a few and his touring credits have taken him to over a hundred cities in the USA, Sweden, Indonesia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, many countries in South America as well as Europe and Asia.

He has also toured and performed alongside internationally acclaimed artists and celebrities, including Marc Anthony, Chayanne, and Marco Antonio Solís. Roberto has been reviewed in publications such as Billboard Magazine, All About Jazz, Smooth Jazz Vibes and several more. He has recorded with prestigious artists such as Marion Meadows, Peter White, Maysa to name a few.

Roberto has composed and recorded 4 albums and numerous singles, as well as collaborates with other artists in different albums. For over 16 years, he was a featured pianist with the renowned Legends in Concert in Las Vegas, performing weekly on the Las Vegas Strip for audiences of 4,000– 5,000 guests.

He is currently working as Musical Director and keyboard player for the Queen Selena and Sinatra Live shows at Alexis Park in Las Vegas. Roberto’s versatile, masterful and passionate performances create beautiful and moving music that speaks for itself.

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Sinatra Live! and the Rat Pack Era in Las Vegas

The Las Vegas that Frank Sinatra built didn't happen in an arena. It happened in rooms of a few hundred people, where a singer worked a few feet from your table, the band was live, and dinner was still in front of you when the first note landed. That was the Rat Pack era — the Sands, the Copa Room, and a run of nights in the late fifties and sixties that gave the city its reputation for grown-up entertainment.

Sinatra Live! is built to feel like one of those nights. Michael Sinatra performs the standards — My Way, Fly Me to the Moon, The Way You Look Tonight, Luck Be a Lady — backed by live musicians in the Alexis Garden, an intimate supper-club room just off the Strip where you can eat and drink through the show.

Is this a Rat Pack tribute show?

Not in the three-impersonator sense — you won't see actors playing Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. alongside Frank. Sinatra Live! is a dedicated Frank Sinatra tribute that recreates the era: the songbook, the swing arrangements, the supper-club setting and the loose, between-songs charm that made those Sands nights famous. If you're looking for the Rat Pack Vegas atmosphere with Sinatra's catalogue at the centre of it, this is that show. If you specifically want a three-man impersonator revue, it isn't.

Why an off-Strip showroom suits this material

The Rat Pack shows were small by design. A 2,000-seat theatre flattens the thing that made them work — the sense that the performer is in the room with you rather than projected onto it. The Alexis Garden seats a fraction of that, so the arrangements stay acoustic-forward and the between-song banter still lands. It's also a shorter, cheaper night out than a Strip headliner residency, which is usually the point for people who came to Vegas to do more than one thing in an evening.

What to expect