In 1965 singer Rubén Guevara got his big break on national TV, performing on the ABC musical variety series Shindig! There was just one catch.
He had to drop his real name in favor of an acceptably anglo one: Jay P. Mobey.There he was on black and white TV, primetime, shaking his groove thing with Tina Turner and Bo Diddley, commanding the stage, under a name that erased his Mexican-American identity.“I didn’t want to change my name,” Guevara remembers in the new documentary Con Safos. “I was torn about it, but I was young and I wanted to make a name for myself.
I just never imagined I’d have to do it with a made up one.”The documentary, directed by Michael Vargas and Moni Vargas, premieres Wednesday night on KCET, as the first episode of
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