Chris Montez (born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez, January 17 1943, Los Angeles, California, the last of twenty children) , is a Mexican American singer.

Chris Montez (born Ezekiel Christopher Montanez, January 17, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, the last of twenty children), is a Mexican American singer. Montez grew up in Hawthorne, California, influenced by the Latino flavored music of his community and the success of Ritchie Valens. In 1962, he recorded the single, “Let’s Dance” on Monogram Records. It went to #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts in the U.S. and to #2 on the U.K. Singles Chart. One would expect such an auspicious start t