Felix Truvere is a high-energy performing, live country music artist, very regularly working many venue stages around the San Antoinio, Texas area as many as 4 days a week, always choosing to entertain close to home where he lives with his family. Felix Truvere has performed events as large as the 2024 Cheyenne Rodeo “Frontier Days,” the San Antonio Livestock Show & Rodeo for over a decade; The Texas State Fair; many festivals, and many various popular country music nightclubs, saloons, and venues.
Born and Raised in San Antonio, TX.
Graduate of John Marshall High School.
Head Drum Major of the UIL State Band Finalist: Marshall High School Marching Band 1991-92
UIL One Act (acting); All-Region orchestra and band (French Horn), choir (tenor)
Degree: UTSA - Bachelors of Arts in Instrumental Music Education. French Horn player
Drum Corps International (DCI) World Champion “Cadets of Bergen County” in Bergenfield, NJ - Mellophone player 1993 & 1994
High school teacher/band director at San Antonio NISD schools 1995-99
Senior Bank Underwriter and Trainer at USAA Federal Savings Bank; $1.5 million lending authority 2001-08.
Felix Truvere and the Open Road Band is Established 2010
Texas Country Music Award for Best Songwriter in 2019
New music is always coming soon!
MISSION STATEMENT / PERSONAL BIOGRAPHY
19 years ago…
Just before I made a band, I was a charismatic mortgage & loan officer/ underwriter & trainer at USAA FSB, trusted with $1.5 million lending authority.
But at home, I was suffering a 2nd divorce w/ child. I sure didn't get married a 2nd time to go thru that nightmare again after rebuilding my life from a 1st divorce in '99; married way too young at 22 when I left a beloved high school band-directing career. I had a personal oath to God to repay my perfect childhood w/ perfect parents & amazing experiences... to pay forward to children with music education, all the great things I learned about intrinsic self-discipline, work-ethic, & being a role model of positive energy for our future. I’d make great future leaders from my band students! So what went wrong? Again?
Today, the mistakes of my past are obvious to me. But then, I didn’t know why I was failing valuable years of my young, talented life…Divorced twice, child support, now struggling with my happiness in a detour career in upper-level BANKING instead of my music passion. I didn’t feel I deserved this destination for a fella who was taught to pray every single night as a toddler, church every Sunday, catechism classes, CERTAINLY was always “God FEARING” so what’s the problem?
So 19 years ago, after my 2ND divorce; crying heavy tears, naked in a shower, water pouring over me, COMPLETELY LOST, I made a sincere prayer… angry, in clenched fists; I’ll never forget how broken & mad… “I’m not asking for money, fame, a girl, material things… just point me in a DIRECTION!!🤷♂️”… simple. My choice words were colorful; very honest, and I let go on all my feelings, very angry and not afraid to show it because I pray every night, and to THIS day, it’s still “Always Somethin!” Am I failing my life? My intentions are always DAMN good! What gives?
I mean…RIGHT AFTER this emotional prayer, “divine” things began to happen. First thing was I just felt better. I was over it. I knew that I grew from it all & could never make the same mistakes. I am wiser & stronger. Some veil had lifted; a filter removed to see reality more clearly. And straight from that “shower prayer” to my bedroom, I came across “MySpace Karaoke…” and just like that, everything changed.
I was able to sing karaoke songs to a National audience called “SOCIAL MEDIA.” And I couldn’t wait to show off to my friends that had no idea I could sing. Well… I became THE VERY FIRST “viral online star” before YouTube or Facebook were a thing. I was on an ABC television show & everything…then i found band members… or actually THEY found ME extraordinarily quickly! 🤷♂️ December 29, 2009, guitarist Beaver Thomas joined & completed my band with Enrique Benavides on Drums & Al “Ace” Price on Bass/Keys. We practiced for 6 months before our first booking. In July 2010, my band was already opening for Nashville Recording Artist, Jerrod Niemann at Bluebonnet Palace.
So the way I saw it, GOD gave me this new direction. I KNEW (didn’t THINK) I KNEW GOD ANSWERED MY PRAYER & placed me in a very particular place to offer my talents for educating & enlightening a larger audience; not just band kids. I figure EVERYBODY can use some inspiration & that is just good for the world. So I quit my job of security, health care, & a retirement plan… while paying a large child support ordered for my “earning potential.” I even cashed out my 401K to buy PA equipment & give EVERYTHING to God 100% ALL OF IT! Pointed up & said this is on YOU! Let’s see what we got! 🤷♂️ I really did have that faith in God about what was happening.
Then Jessie came along. THE girl. The ONE; someone who brought an entire whole other life’s-worth of enlightenments to me. She deserves her own book & I’ll tell that story another day. She is God’s divine gift to me; no doubt about it. And Im sorry babe… I know I’m a “Hard man to love.” My personality is just sorta…so damn big.
Out of thin air one night in about 45 minutes, like a calling…I wrote my very first song called, “Thou shalt not bitch,” a message aimed at APPRECIATING the many blessed things you have already. Shut up & stop coveting what THEY have; BE BLESSED FOR BREATHING!
& Then I wrote “Cowboy’s ride,” a waltz about “the journey.” Realizing “the moment,” “right now” is where life counts. It’s not about finishing life with a reward you win… It’s about appreciating the REAL rewards… realizing your story is occurring RIGHT NOW; you’re breathing and living it to its fullest with people you love. Right? Other songs… “The Open Road,” “Learn to Be,” “Quantum Cowboy,” …I couldn’t stop writing philosophical, spiritual songs with a deeper message & enlightenment between the lines.
I created my logo with a crucifix & a road. A road we share; ALL making the same tough journey of life, ultimately journeying toward the same destination. Along the way, we all get flat tires, learn to change them, and we move on. YOU ARE BEHIND THE WHEEL; in likeness of your creator to BE A CREATOR of your life. Your EVERY thought will manifest your love OR your hate. Walk faithfully & choose your HEART’S path; adhere NOT to what “THEY” say… but LISTEN INSIDE TO YOUR OWN INNER-SELF where GOD speaks already answered choices for your path. BUT!!! Most importantly….. you better carry COMPASSION along with you TO HELP ALL OTHERS reach their destination as EVERYBODY IS ULTIMATELY IN THE END the consciousness of God. Everyone in your life is a mirror of YOU helping shape your own growth. I know this because, the other miraculous thing that happened in 2010 was…. and here it is… “quantum mechanics…” I sorta call it “the science behind God.” (Quantum physics proves God to me). A subject I’ve “obsessively” studied & rabbit-holed too often for 16 years now.
So… I have empathy & compassion for EVERYbody because… “Quantum mechanics” (the behavior of reality at the “smaller than atoms’ level “sub-atomic”) is proving many things that mirror the most important “spiritual” passages & prayers we were all taught. One, is that our “consciousness” may actually be just ONE entangled field that drives these skin suits we wear as “avatars” AND plays a central role in manifesting our reality made up of the electrons that make up the atoms of EVERYTHING that EVERYTHING is made of. The consciousness of every individual life down here is inputing experiences for ONE being WE ALL ARE TOGETHER - ONE big ocean of consciousness, of God. An accumulated, collective, frightening knowledge where every light & dark experience of polar-opposites are balancing each other out. Here is the wisdom: The leaves of the tree cannot reach to heaven without its roots sinking into the enriched depths of hell….to have such knowledge to appreciate the difference, to make a COMPLETE tree. You can’t appreciate a relaxing hot bath unless you’ve just walked in from bitter cold… The further that polar-distance in temperature is how much MORE your senses will APPRECIATE the contrast. This means that you cannot appreciate the JOY of life as much, unless you’ve experienced life’s darkness to understand what you stand to lose. Like losing a loved one. And that is just the devastating part of all this…the necessary evils. For exapmle; we made Ai, which may find the cure for cancer….But such a bright light casts its dark shadow of bad things Ai can also be used for. On another example… You are a mirror of the person you hurt & crucify. You may not understand that, but you are here balancing & growing each other, and the rules to this system mirror our prayers; God’s perfect plan. “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us…” We may all seem divided, but we’re gonna discover more together through it as we ENDURE it together. I’ve always observed all the ends, and I’ve ALWAYS just loved you ALL. I’m here FOR YOU. #CompassionFirst
