Rudy Amado Pérez is a Cuban-born American musician, songwriter, composer, producer, arranger, sound engineer, musical director and singer, as well as entertainment entrepreneur, and philanthropist. His area of specialty is ballads, although he has also worked in a variety of other genres.
Pérez has produced more than 70 albums, composed over 1,000 songs, and written and produced music for popular international artists such as Westlife, Natalie Cole, José Feliciano, Julio Iglesias, Luis Miguel, Raúl di Blasio, Jaci Velasquez, Cristian Castro, Christina Aguilera, Michael Bolton, Luis Fonsi, Marc Anthony, Jennifer Lopez, Il Divo, and Beyoncé.
He has won many music awards throughout his career, including being voted the most important Latin composer four times, and winning the title of Producer of the Decade in 2010, awarded by Billboard to the producer with the most top 10 hits of the decade. He is the first Latin producer to win Billboard's Producer of the Year award four years consecutively.
Pérez owns the record labels Rudy Pérez Enterprises and Bullseye Productions.