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Gregory Steven Gonzalez (born September 28, 1982) is an American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He is best known for being the founder, lead vocalist and guitarist for the band Cigarettes After Sex .
Cigarettes After Sex is an American dream pop band, formed in El Paso, Texas, in 2008 by Greg Gonzalez.The band is known for their ethereal, limerent and often dream-like musical style, lyrics often based on the themes of romance and love, as well as Gonzalez's voice, which has been described as "androgynous". [8]
Gonzalez was inspired to write the song after he and two women he had dated had "big ambitions" but were "stuck" in their hometown, which felt "impossible" to get out of. Gonzalez then moved to New York City, but the two women remained in their hometown. He said the song is ultimately "about being there for people, when you're all alone.
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According to the review aggregator Metacritic, Cry received "generally favorable reviews" based on a weighted average score of 69 out of 100 from 14 critic scores. [7] Alisha Mughal of Exclaim! called the album a "gentler and more vulnerable" than the band's debut album, and writing that the album "will make you cry, because Gonzalez knows what he's doing.
An ambient pop and shoegaze album, [10] X's sees Gonzalez exploring "slow-dance pop ballads" of the 1970s and 1980s, while the lyrics deal with romance and intimacy. [11] Writing "Tejano Blue", its second track, it was inspired by Gonzalez's life in his hometown, El Paso, Texas, as well as Selena's "Como la Flor" and Cocteau Twins and "somehow" tried combining the sound of both artists.
Gonzalez and his wife, Laura Fuechsl, in April 2018. Daniel James Gonzalez [P 1] was born on June 12, 1994, [P 2] in Chicago, Illinois, and grew up in Wheaton, Illinois. [3] He lived in England for two years when he was around 8 or 9. [P 3] He has an older brother (born 1992), and a younger sister. His brother is a server at a restaurant in ...
Scheila Gonzalez (born August 5, 1971 in Los Angeles, California) is an American Grammy winning multi-instrumentalist and music educator. [1] She is best known for playing the saxophone and other instruments in the all-female DIVA Jazz Orchestra and with artists such as Dweezil Zappa , Alex Acuña , Ray Parker Jr. and many others.