Rudy Salas (5 January 1949 – 29 December 2020)[1][2] was a musician who was a member of the group El Chicano.
Taking what he learned from his mother, he and his brother started playing neighborhood fiestas.
[3] In the early to mid 1960s, the brothers were spotted by Mario Paniagua a leader of The Percussions, Jaguars.
Not long after that, Rudy and Steve recorded singles for Eddie Davis's Faro label as The Salas Brothers.
[10] In 2010 Salas played a concert at the Inland Empire with former El Chicano bandmate Bobby Espinosa who would soon pass away.