Jorge Moreno

In 2013, Moreno opened a bar restaurant called Moreno's Cuba, located on South Beach. The restaurant has been voted in top 5 Cuban restaurants in Miami by Haute Living magazine and voted "Best hidden gem on South Beach" by New Times Magazine. Moreno's Cuba offers premium live music and Moreno frequently jumps up on stage. In 2017 Moreno also opened "Mr. Wright's Gold Digger Saloon" an old west themed restaurant / Bar in the ugly popular Wynwood arts district in Miami.

In 2011 Moreno won the International Songwriters contest as best Video for his song "Thank you" and came in as first runner up for the composition.

Most recently, Moreno is taking music at his own pace and has released a string of singles. The first being "Thank You" released late 2010 (on iTunes) and won the prestigious International Songwriters Contest "ISC" award for "Best Video" and placed as a semi finalist for "Best Song".

In 2008, Moreno performed as Special Music Guest along with Usher in the Victoria Secret Fashion Show, reportedly seen by hundreds of millions of views worldwide. Later that year he started another business venture Beach Pictures, a Miami based television, film and web production company represented by William Morris Endeavor.

In late March 2005, Moreno's released his second CD was "EL SEGUNDO", with the song "Avión" expected to rule the airwaves but was lost with the new reggaeton fad.. In the meantime, he had live performances all across Universities in the U.S. and started to build a grass roots fan base. Soon after he recorded the title track for the Havana Nights Sound track with Santana.

Moreno got a break when EMI Music Publishing took him on as a songwriter. It was then that he caught the attention of Madonna's Latin music label, Maverick Música, and hooked up with established producers Lester Méndez, A.T. Molina, and Andrés Levin. The result was Moreno's slickly produced debut album in 2002. One review referred to Moreno as "a fascinating, occasionally almost surreal melding of traditional and modern Latin styles, '60s Top 40, B-movie soundtrack music, '90s synth pop, alternative rock, and even a little hip-hop, the album defies easy categorization." The album's bicultural mix of disparate musical influences took the United States-based Latin music industry by storm.

In 2002, Moreno won the 2002 Latin Grammy Award for Best New Artist, and in 2003 his album Moreno received a Grammy nomination for Best Latin Pop Album. Despite mainstream success and the "pretty-boy pouty" look of his album cover, Moreno has often used the word "alternative" to categorize his music. "I consider myself part of the Latin alternative music movement" he told Hispanic Magazine.

The list of schools Moreno has attended are long, since he was not a model student. Moreno started in Dade Christian, Palms Springs Elementary, Immaculate Conception, Edison Private, Hialeah Gardens Academy, Miami Lakes Jr, Belen, Miami Aerospace Military (Boarding School), Pace High, Miami High and Finally Coral Gables Sr. High. In his junior year of high school, Moreno joined two friends in a musical trio that melded all of their musical influences into "a Latin Beatles-ish sort of rock." The band broke up three years later and Moreno left to study film and photography at New World School of the Arts and then Later University of Miami. In the meantime, however, he continued to compose and improve upon his guitar-playing skills. In 1996, upon deciding that he wanted to dedicate his life exclusively to music, he began recording demos---off-the-wall creations. He spent the next five years making demos, which he reportedly sent to record executives in pizza boxes in order to get their attention. Experimentation over this period forged a new sound that mixed these varied musical interests with the sounds of the 1950s that he had grown up with. ""If you take [sic] Beny Moré, Paul McCartney, and Radiohead, placed them in a can, and shook it up a bit, that would be my sound", Moreno would later tell LatinStyleMag.com.

Jorge Moreno was born on April 23, 1975 in Miami, Florida. His parents emigrated children from Cuba to Miami Beach in 1958, during the dictatorship of "Fugenio Batista". In the 1970s and 1980s, his father Antonio "TONY" Moreno was a well known and respected executive producer whom was one of the pioneers behind "Salsa Music" and operated several well-known salsa labels. His mother, Melba, was a huge fan of 1950s and 1960s pop and rock acts such as Frankie Valli, Elvis Presley, and Dion.

More recently, Moreno has branched into being a "restaurateur" having opened "Moreno's Cuba" a 1950's style speakeasy bar and cafe at the DORCHESTER Hotel and Suites at 1850 Collins Ave Miami Beach Fl, 33139 on South Beach and also "Mr. Wright's Gold Digger Saloon" a theatrically designed, Old West - early American settler themed bar in the Wynwood arts district of Miami.

Quickly after signing with Maverick, Moreno became an overnight sensation with an alternative version of the song "Babalú", popularized for American audiences by the late Cuban-born artist Desi Arnaz, who was best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the 1950s television comedy I Love Lucy, in which he starred alongside his wife, the famous actress and comedian Lucille Ball. Moreno knew that he wanted to pay tribute to the song on his first album, and he later appeared on the CBS I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special, hosted by the children of Arnaz and Ball. His appearance on the program sparked public interest in an artist previously unknown to the greater public.