Chandler Street Taco Festival 2017
Originally from Silver City, New Mexico, Xavier Yáñez has been actively involved in music for most of his life. His career began as a teenager playing for his father’s Chicano band. He has studied and played many different styles of music including jazz, country, pop, rock, funk, sacred music, tex-mex and currently enticed in Latin music. Xavier graduated with a Bachelor of Music Education Degree and is currently teaching at Santa Maria Middle School in Phoenix, Arizona. He was also the choir director at the Chandler United Methodist Church in Chandler, Arizona for many years.
As a performer he has played with numerous musicians in a variety of different combinations at night clubs, casinos, music halls and jazz festivals in New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, California, and Mexico. Xavier is currently a busy freelance musician in Phoenix performing, teaching, recording, and inspiring.