Jorge Moreno

Jorge Moreno was born in Tulare, California in the Central San Juaquin Valley, One of the biggest agriculture producing valley's in the western part of the U.S.A. Jorge is tenth of eleven children. His parents were farm labor workers that immigrated in the sixties from the State of Nuevo Leon, Mexico to California. Jorge's early childhood was heavily influenced by the norteno genre, music comprised of accordion and bajo, the twelve string guitar which originated in the northern part of Mexico and Texas. Much of this was instilled during trips to Mexico. Jorge was always paying attention to his uncles, who were in norteno bands. In his early teens his interest for Country and Tejano Music grew, some of his influences in country were George Strait, Eddie Rabbit, Dwight Yoakum, Brooks and Dunn, Garth Brooks. In The Norteno and Tejano genres, Emilio Navaira, David Lee Garza, Ramon Ayala, Rigo Tovar, Los Humildes and Los Bukis, just to name a few. In his late teens he joined a few bands, were he was in charge of singing the Tejano/Country and Norteno songs. In the nineties he recorded his first album entitled "Enamorado" ("In Love" in English). Before completing his next album, Jorge decided to finish school. He graduated in 2000 from California State University of Bakersfield with a degree Administration of Criminology and a Minor in Sociology.