El Vez

El Vez (born 1960) is the stage name of Robert Lopez, a Mexican-American rock and roll artist, who performs and records original material and covers classic rock songs. Mixing the styles of Elvis Presley and many other American rock artists with his own Latin-American heritage and music, he is known for expressing revolutionary views through his the satire and humor in his songs.

Lopez's main persona and style is very similar to Elvis Presley, as his stage name suggests. However, he is not strictly an Elvis impersonator; on his recordings and in his live show, he covers many non-Mexican artists, such as John Lennon, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon, T. Rex, Queen and the Beatles. Also known as the "Thin Brown Duke", "The Chicano Elvis", or "The Mexican Elvis", he got his start in the Latino punk band The Zeros, and played in Catholic Discipline with lesbian folk singer Phranc.

In Spanish, "El Vez" literally means "The Time", despite its gender-noun disagreement in the Spanish language; it should be "Una Vez" or "La Vez". The non-literal translation of a "Vez" would be a certain time (ie. "The time I went swimming"), a "Tiempo" refers to the actual hour (ie. "I went swimming at that time").