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Growing up in Amarillo and Flower Mound, Manny Trevino wasn’t initially into music. At that time, he was more interested in sports, especially football and track and field.
But with his parents, Marie and Manuel, always performing in church and his older brother, Stephen, a piano prodigy, these sounds were ingrained in him.
“I didn’t have all the formal training that my brother did, but he taught me at home,” he said. “Music is my brother and sister (Tricia). They are both musically inclined. They both went to the University of North Texas. She is a member of the jazz choir and my brother plays multiple instruments. I am not him A musician like that. I think I must be fooling people.”
Judging from the crowd listening to the 47-year-old Lantana resident speak, it was clear he was entertaining them. You can find him nearby at places like Marty B’s and the Lakeside Music Series, as well as further afield in Colonial, Royse City, Frisco and more.
In addition to his solo performances, Trevino is a member of two groups. One of them is the Turnpike Tribute, which honors the Texas red country band Turnpike Troubadours.
“This region is one of the largest cover and tribute music regions in the country,” Trevino said. “We’re proud and we believe we are the first Texas Country Red Dirt tribute band.”
The Turnpike Tribute was so successful that last summer Trevino formed another band called The Texas Red Dirt Experience, which performed at Marty B’s sixth anniversary celebration on November 16. In addition to singing, Trevino plays bass guitar and harmonica.
What separates Red Dirt from typical country music?
“The main difference is that clay musicians usually create their own music,” Trevino said. “Nashville singers don’t write their own music. Nashville is ‘I want to sell it.’ I want to sell. “Red Dirt” is more about the songwriting and lyrics. “
Each of the two ensembles has 5 to 6 musicians, allowing Trevino and his bandmates to play in virtually any size venue. It also allowed him to play with fellow musicians who had performed in more famous acts.
Trevino moved to Flower Mound as a high school freshman and graduated from Marcus High School in 1995. His brother is a senior and Tricia is a junior. They also have an older sister, Elizabeth, who teaches at McAuliffe Primary School in Highland Village and lives in Argyll.
“I’ve always just played for fun,” he said. “When I was about 6 years old playing bass, we had a band (Little Texas before the current band existed). My brother played keyboards, my sister played drums, and my dad was the guitar player behind the scenes. We did it for the high school Got some gigs and went to Colorado.”
He played just for fun until transferring to the University of North Texas after one year at the University of Texas at Arlington. His original dream was to become an architect, but he missed football more than building, so he moved to Denton School, where he played wide receiver. In track and field, he specializes in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, the 400-meter relay and the long jump.
He knew he wasn’t good enough to play professionally in either sport, so he considered coaching as a career. After earning a degree in social studies, he began teaching physical education and world geography and coaching at Marcus. Within two years, he realized he needed to do something else.
One time, he picked up someone’s guitar and thought it was cool. Then, thanks to a friend of a friend who was a restaurant bar manager, he was able to sing and earn some decent tips.
“That’s when I thought I could talk to the local area and see if I could compete,” he said. “That’s how it started.”
Shortly thereafter, he began making music, impressing a small studio (Pearl Snap Records) and management company (Dark Horse Management).
“I produced the first CD myself (in 2004) under the band name Aschere,” he said. “It was like five songs in, and then people took me into a real studio and took the ‘e’ out of my name.”
For a time, he toured in California, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada. Most recently, he played primarily in North Texas while serving as a conditioning coach at Gladiator Camp.
“My two passions are music and coaching, and I can coach without teaching,” he said. “I’m involved in training and fitness.”
In a true “the show must go on” mentality, Trevino insisted on performing at the Flower Mound Lakeside Music Series on September 8, despite the show being canceled due to the sweltering heat and incoming storm.
“I tell them that when I was at Flower Mound, most of my audience were CG enthusiasts,” he said. “These guys are used to being out there and don’t care. They were kind enough to let me do it. I’m halfway there, maybe more.”
Like many other musicians, Trevino releases a few songs on Spotify rather than full CDs.
“I was interested in CG, but I told my wife, ‘If I spend some time working on the music for Troubadour Tribute, six months, eight months from now, we’re going to see some revenue coming from that. I don’t have to Doing it every morning in CG,” he said. “Now I only work Monday and Wednesday nights at Marcus. It’s more fun, honestly.
“I’ve found a better balance between the two. My children come to visit me regularly.”
He and his wife, Paige, have children ages 2 and 5, and a 12-year-old son. She works in the financial sector of the pharmaceutical industry. His older brother Stephen, who lives in Argyll, continues his musical talents as a member of the Journey tribute band Infinite Journey.
“That’s where I really came up with the idea of paying homage to the Turnpike Troubadours, because he had previously played with a band in the ’80s, and when he was hired by Infinite Journey, he would tell me how much money he was making,” Trevino said . “Once he told me how much money he was making, I said ‘I can sing all the Turnpike songs, but they don’t go together. Let me try to do this. Now, it all comes together.'”
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