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Rodriguez was born on March 26, 1980, in Wichita Falls, northern Texas.He allegedly faced abuse from his alcoholic and domineering father, Rosendo Rodriguez Jr. He attended Texas Tech University in Lubbock, and had worked as an office clerk and as a fast food worker, as well as serving as a Marine reservist.
Rodríguez was born to migrant laborer parents in Alice in Jim Wells County, Texas. From a young age, he worked alongside them in the fields to help support a family of nine. [1] Rodríguez graduated from the University of Texas - Pan American, then known as Pan American University, in Edinburg in South Texas. As an undergraduate in 1971, he ...
Cleto Rodríguez, a Mexican-American, was born and lived in San Marcos, Texas until his parents died when he was nine years old. After the death of his parents he was sent to live with relatives in San Antonio, Texas. As a boy he worked for the Gunter Hotel as a newsboy.
Constructed from 1920 to 1921 as the Hotel Texas, it was designed by Sanguinet & Staats and Mauran, Russell, & Crowell, with Westlake Construction Co. as the contractor. A two-story addition was constructed to the North in 1963, featuring a bank on the ground floor and a new 25,000 sq ft ballroom on the second level. [ 3 ]
The hotel was included in Condé Nast Traveler magazine's list of the world's Top 100 new hotels in May 2004. [4] Its success led the group to open Hotel Valencia Santana Row in San Jose, California. [when?] [citation needed] In 2009, Hotel Sorella CityCentre opened in Houston in the mixed-use urban CityCentre development.
Rodríguez received his early musical education in his native San Antonio and in Austin (University of Texas at Austin), [1] Los Angeles (University of Southern California), [2] Lenox (Tanglewood), Fontainebleau (Conservatoire Americain) and Paris. His teachers have included Nadia Boulanger, Jacob Druckman, Bruno Maderna and Elliott Carter.
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Troublemaker Studios is an American independent production company founded and owned by filmmaker Robert Rodriguez and producer Elizabeth Avellán. [1]The company is based in Austin, Texas, and is at the former site of the Robert Mueller Municipal Airport.