Hilda Lamas

Hilda Lamas, Aransas Pass native singer/songwriter, brings her distinctive mix of blues, soul, pop and rock with a Latin influence to the Sunset Sounds concert series on Friday, Aug. 9.

The free concert begins at 7 p.m. at Patsy Jones Amphitheater at Roberts Point Park.

Concertgoers should bring food and drinks, lawn chairs or blankets while they sit back and listen or dance to the music.

The park has a kids’ playground in sight and friendly dogs are welcome as long as they are on a leash.

The Port Aransas Parks and Recreation Department sponsors the free concerts the second Friday of every month through October. - Port Aransas South Jetty

Making history bvefore recording a note, Hilda Lamas became the first blues artist to be signed to HAcienda Records.
Her debut cd, Latina Soul was released February 2009. The album is loaded with a blend of soul, blues, rock, and R&B. Highlighting this 19 song cd are “Some Kind Of Wonderful” (“Maravilloso”), which is presented in bi-lingual format and a soulful remake of the Etta James Classic “Damn Your Eyes’. “Touch Me” and “Green Eyes” are two songs exemplifying Hilda’s songwriting talernt.
Hilda co-wrote the first one with R&B performer Bigg Freexe and the second features the talents of rapper Mr. Mike.
“La Plaga”, “Que Guapo Estas” and a special Janis Joplin Tribute entitled “Cry Baby/Piece Of My Heart” stand out as fan favorites.
Hilda is currently touring with her 5 piece band, with seasoned musicians and expert showmanship, Hilda Lamas and The Hilda Lamas Band is an act to be on the lookout for. With their live show consisting of the best Motown, Soul, Blues, as well as originals, it is sure to make your venue/event a success. - Brownsville Talent Magazine

I just received the newest release, Love Me Alone, from Hilda Lamas and it's a certain airplay success. Lamas 13 track effort is commercially strong featuring Lamas singing in front of a very studio tight band. I'll Be Gone has a bluesy swagger. No Meaning has a certain Latin rhythm sounding as if it could be a track right from a mcontemporary Santana release. Blues Man In A Three Piece Suit has a solid blues base and Lamas kicks dirt as she delivers with command. Over You has a R&B taste to it and again with harmonic vocals Lamas sells the goods. Nice Set Of Wheels sets off with a soulful strut. Lamas continues to demonstrate that she has the pipes to carry her own band. HeartStealer is another track with a strong Santana influence, hot guitar riffs and Latin percussion. On Take It Like A Woman, Lamas delivers a strong message and again shows critical signs of commercial talent. This is a very uniform release profiling Lamas as a front woman featuring her vocal skills and style. I believe that she has been successful in her efforts and believe that she will receive super accolades for her efforts. The band features Mike Gregory on Keys, Jesse Flores and John Liberto on guitars, Tom Engle on bass and Ernest Ruiz on drums. - Bman's Blues Report

CORPUS CHRISTI - Local recording artist Hilda Lamas will celebrate the release of her new album next week at House of Rock.

The contemporary blues musician, who is helping keep the legacy of Hacienda Records alive, titled her latest album, "Love Me Alone."

The free release party will kick off at 5:30 p.m. Thursday and the first 100 patrons will receive a complimentary CD so be sure to arrive early. Lamas also will perform a 30-minute live set previewing some of her new music.

Her sophomore album, which contains 13 tracks, will be officially released on March 5. She's come a long way from her debut album, "Latina Soul."

"With ‘Latina Soul' we were just trying to get something out and trying to see what worked musically," Lamas said. "Because ‘Latina Soul' wasn't necessarily a single genre of music, we got responses from all types of audiences; but people also shied away from the album for that reason. I was raised on Motown and gospel and that was the material that received the most positive reaction, so with ‘Love Me Alone' there's more contemporary blues content and a borderline Texas country feel."

Raised in South Texas, Lamas' ties with legendary Tejano music label Hacienda Records and C & G Music Partners promote local talent and help maintain Corpus Christi's presence in contemporary music.

"The new album was recorded entirely at Hacienda Records with all local musicians. We have incredible talent here, but most of it is still unknown. Being at Hacienda Records you get to meet all these incredible musicians who are virtually unknown in town, but who are recognized around the world for their work," Lamas said.

Backed by a live band, Lamas' latest release is as much a collaborative effort as it is a solo piece of work.

"This has really been a labor of love with my band mates Ernest Ruiz and Mike Gregory co-arranging and coproducing the album," Lamas explained. "You will hear a lot of blues with a splash of Latin rhythms. We wanted to make a sound that was purely our own."

Preview her first single "Can't Take the Mud Out" from her new album by visiting her official website or by purchasing the single on iTunes and Amazon. - Corpus Christi Caller Times - Julia Arredondo/Special to the Caller-Times

Hilda Lamas, at four years old, first performed solo on stage at First Baptist Church in Aransas Pass, her home town.

"Our pastor, Bob Watson, tricked me into it Saturday night after the Christmas pageant. He said he couldn't hear me, and could I do it again during Sunday Service. I sang 'Christmas is a Time,'" Hilda recalled recently during an interview in Corpus Christi.

Today, at age 26, Hilda Lamas is yet the only one of a family of ten from Aransas Pass who has gotten serious about music as a career.

Her first CD, "Latina Soul," was released in 2009, and these days, when she is not performing at a nightclub or booking stage time at San Antonio's annual Fiesta Mercado and Buc Days in Corpus Christi, she is in the studio, working on her sophomore album.

Surviving and thriving in the music business has been hard work, and nowadays Lamas is seeing a return on her determination.


This will be her third year playing on stage at Market Square in San Antonio and her second year at Buc Days.

Just this past weekend, she returned home to sing the "National Anthem" for the official opening ceremony of the Aransas Pass Little League in Community Park.

She has been a member of the family of artists at Hacienda Records in Corpus Christi, and is about to go international with a C&R Music Group, based in France.

A Spanish ballad will debut on her second CD, set to be released in September, but she has not even met the man in Europe who wrote it especially for her.

Although Lamas is not headlining the Fiesta or Buc Days events, it seems apparent that with time she will climb to the top in the music business.

She graduated from Aransas Pass High School in May 2001, and immediately moved to Corpus Christi to attend Texas A&M University.

She said her mother, Natalie, told her that music was not a steady income, and that she must have a backup plan.

She started out as a pre-med student, but her college friends coaxed her into singing karaoke at venues such as Paradise Billiards.

"They convinced me to go. It was my first taste of performing in Corpus and I got addicted to it," Lamas said.

One thing led to another, singing the "National Anthem for the A&M Islanders and for the Coastal Bend Aviators (minor league baseball) in Robstown.

"I knew I was hooked. I wanted the stage. I had been hungry for the music business since 2002," she said.

Hilda began hanging around at Hacienda Records, sweeping floors and doing errands, waiting to be noticed, and Rick Garc’a, who now is her manager, helped her find a break.

"I was working at Circle K by the university, I've had a lot of odd jobs, and Rick said 'come over here now for an audition,'" Lamas explained.

"I had strep throat, but I did 'Lady Marmalade' by Patty LaBelle. I got on with the band, Phive, and had the opportunity to play on stage with Rocky Benton and Jim Allison. I learned to keep my ears open and my mouth shut," she said.

From 2006 to 2008, Hilda Lamas worked at different jobs, office custodian, car lot receptionist, waiting tables and singing karaoke for tips, and two years at a call center to support her own band.

"I didn't have a car. I would get up at 5 a.m. and walk a mile to the bus, transfer to another bus and be at work at 7 a.m. By 3 p.m. I would catch the bus and meet my drummer. For two years I was exhausted, having no fun at all," Lamas recalled.

Then in summer 2008 Hilda took vacation and said she would not return to work. She took a job with a small business answering telephones, with only one bus to take to work. Then her manager told her he had an extra room in his house and that she should move in.

"Now I am full time focused on my music. It all worked out the way it needs to. Rick is my manager, my producer and my best friend. It is complicated," Lamas said.

Two years ago, Hilda Lamas was billed as being "soulful, beautiful and full of sass" and "in a class all by herself," adding "power and intensity to the Latin world."

She sang blues, soul, pop, rock and Latin songs. Her debut single, "Que Guapo Estas," was popular globally on Internet radio, and "Touch Me" was No. 1 on the MindViz Latin Top 100.

She shared the stage at various times with Jay Leno and Clint Black, and has always been willing to sing for charity benefits and social events.

Hilda was nominated in 2006 as "Best New Female Tejano Artist."

Lamas recently sang for Governor Rick Perry for his "State of the State" address, and she has appeared, barefooted, on South Texas's longest-running TV music show, "Domingo Live."

"I performed on TV barefooted, and now they joke about it. But I was so tired. My mom called and asked 'where are your shoes?' I said I took them off," Hilda said.

Although she has preferred to sing Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools," or tunes by Etta James or Billie Holiday, one of the most requested artists work for Lamas is Janis Joplin.

"I didn't get Janis Joplin. I was never a Jani - The Aransas Pass Progress - Michael Cary

Hilda Lamas, at four years old, first performed solo on stage at First Baptist Church in Aransas Pass, her home town.

"Our pastor, Bob Watson, tricked me into it Saturday night after the Christmas pageant. He said he couldn't hear me, and could I do it again during Sunday Service. I sang 'Christmas is a Time,'" Hilda recalled recently during an interview in Corpus Christi.

Today, at age 26, Hilda Lamas is yet the only one of a family of ten from Aransas Pass who has gotten serious about music as a career.

Her first CD, "Latina Soul," was released in 2009, and these days, when she is not performing at a nightclub or booking stage time at San Antonio's annual Fiesta Mercado and Buc Days in Corpus Christi, she is in the studio, working on her sophomore album.

Surviving and thriving in the music business has been hard work, and nowadays Lamas is seeing a return on her determination.


This will be her third year playing on stage at Market Square in San Antonio and her second year at Buc Days.

Just this past weekend, she returned home to sing the "National Anthem" for the official opening ceremony of the Aransas Pass Little League in Community Park.

She has been a member of the family of artists at Hacienda Records in Corpus Christi, and is about to go international with a C&R Music Group, based in France.

A Spanish ballad will debut on her second CD, set to be released in September, but she has not even met the man in Europe who wrote it especially for her.

Although Lamas is not headlining the Fiesta or Buc Days events, it seems apparent that with time she will climb to the top in the music business.

She graduated from Aransas Pass High School in May 2001, and immediately moved to Corpus Christi to attend Texas A&M University.

She said her mother, Natalie, told her that music was not a steady income, and that she must have a backup plan.

She started out as a pre-med student, but her college friends coaxed her into singing karaoke at venues such as Paradise Billiards.

"They convinced me to go. It was my first taste of performing in Corpus and I got addicted to it," Lamas said.

One thing led to another, singing the "National Anthem for the A&M Islanders and for the Coastal Bend Aviators (minor league baseball) in Robstown.

"I knew I was hooked. I wanted the stage. I had been hungry for the music business since 2002," she said.

Hilda began hanging around at Hacienda Records, sweeping floors and doing errands, waiting to be noticed, and Rick Garc’a, who now is her manager, helped her find a break.

"I was working at Circle K by the university, I've had a lot of odd jobs, and Rick said 'come over here now for an audition,'" Lamas explained.

"I had strep throat, but I did 'Lady Marmalade' by Patty LaBelle. I got on with the band, Phive, and had the opportunity to play on stage with Rocky Benton and Jim Allison. I learned to keep my ears open and my mouth shut," she said.

From 2006 to 2008, Hilda Lamas worked at different jobs, office custodian, car lot receptionist, waiting tables and singing karaoke for tips, and two years at a call center to support her own band.

"I didn't have a car. I would get up at 5 a.m. and walk a mile to the bus, transfer to another bus and be at work at 7 a.m. By 3 p.m. I would catch the bus and meet my drummer. For two years I was exhausted, having no fun at all," Lamas recalled.

Then in summer 2008 Hilda took vacation and said she would not return to work. She took a job with a small business answering telephones, with only one bus to take to work. Then her manager told her he had an extra room in his house and that she should move in.

"Now I am full time focused on my music. It all worked out the way it needs to. Rick is my manager, my producer and my best friend. It is complicated," Lamas said.

Two years ago, Hilda Lamas was billed as being "soulful, beautiful and full of sass" and "in a class all by herself," adding "power and intensity to the Latin world."

She sang blues, soul, pop, rock and Latin songs. Her debut single, "Que Guapo Estas," was popular globally on Internet radio, and "Touch Me" was No. 1 on the MindViz Latin Top 100.

She shared the stage at various times with Jay Leno and Clint Black, and has always been willing to sing for charity benefits and social events.

Hilda was nominated in 2006 as "Best New Female Tejano Artist."

Lamas recently sang for Governor Rick Perry for his "State of the State" address, and she has appeared, barefooted, on South Texas's longest-running TV music show, "Domingo Live."

"I performed on TV barefooted, and now they joke about it. But I was so tired. My mom called and asked 'where are your shoes?' I said I took them off," Hilda said.

Although she has preferred to sing Aretha Franklin's "Chain of Fools," or tunes by Etta James or Billie Holiday, one of the most requested artists work for Lamas is Janis Joplin.

"I didn't get Janis Joplin. I was never a Jani - The Aransas Pass Progress - Michael Cary

February 5, 2007 - Local singer, Hilda Lamas will open up for the Flower Power Musical this Saturday, February 10th at the American Bank Center Selena Auditorium. The 22 year old singer/songwriter captivates audiences with her blend of soul, pop, rock and Latin influences. Check out Hilda Lamas online and listen to her music clips at www.hildalamas.com.

Tickets for Flower Power – A Las Vegas Style Musical are $28.50 - $41.50 and are available at the American Bank Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (361) 881-8499. Senior citizens, military and students can purchase discount tickets.


Flower Power is a sassy, psychedelic sensation featuring the music of Peter Paul & Mary, Petula Clark, Smokey Robinson, Leslie Gore, the Supremes, Wilson Pickett, and many others. - American Bank Center

February 5, 2007 - Local singer, Hilda Lamas will open up for the Flower Power Musical this Saturday, February 10th at the American Bank Center Selena Auditorium. The 22 year old singer/songwriter captivates audiences with her blend of soul, pop, rock and Latin influences. Check out Hilda Lamas online and listen to her music clips at www.hildalamas.com.

Tickets for Flower Power – A Las Vegas Style Musical are $28.50 - $41.50 and are available at the American Bank Center Box Office, all Ticketmaster outlets, online at www.ticketmaster.com, or charge by phone at (361) 881-8499. Senior citizens, military and students can purchase discount tickets.


Flower Power is a sassy, psychedelic sensation featuring the music of Peter Paul & Mary, Petula Clark, Smokey Robinson, Leslie Gore, the Supremes, Wilson Pickett, and many others. - American Bank Center