Gerardo Mejía is a rapper/singer, a young pastor and a recording artist from Ecuador, who is better known only by his first name, Gerardo. He currently lives in Los Angeles, and is known for his dressing sense and style, more than his songs and is mostly seen shirtless in his concerts. He first came to be known as a musician, when his album track "Rico Suave" was played in the film Mo' Ritmo (1991). It went up to number 36 in the Billboard 200 chart that year, and in 1991 had been at the 7th place, which was a massive achievement for someone with his debut album. He has recorded many songs in English as well as Spanish. He remade Parliament’s Give Up The Funk track into his own "We Want the Funk", which also made his career as a singer, strong. He has been a very popular artist with his sings and videos being played widely on YouTube, as well as in TV channels like: Synthesis, MTV, VH1 etc. Since 1995, he has been working at the Interscope Records, as an Artists and Repertoire (A&R) and thus has been assigned to find new talents and bring them up. He first found Enrique Iglesias in 1999, and brought him up to the main platform. He was also responsible for hunting and signing the rapper, Bubba Sparxxx to Interscope Label.

Gerardo was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador on the 16th of April, 1965 and is currently 50 years of age, in 2015. He was born as the only child to middle class parents who later moved to United States, where he grew up. As a child, he played a lot of basketball and although is not very tall; but still has a good height. After high school, he took an acting program course and soon grew interest into it. With his parents forcing him to take a better job, he became much free after his father’s death and chose to act. He landed in a couple of small roles, and also served theater for two years. He finally got his first break in 1987 as Ricky in the film Can't Buy Me Love. He also appeared in the gang war movie Colors (1998) before working on his first album. He then played in only a few movies like: Super carrier (1988), A Million to Juan (1994), Pauly Shore is Dead (2003) etc., and started working as a musician. He currently has released 6 different albums, as many hit songs and has also toured around the USA, and performed in several places. An Ecuadorian by nationality, he belongs to white ethnicity.

He is a married person, and has been with his wife Kathy for more than 15 years. Although there is no sort of information regarding his girlfriends, it looks like he didn’t have a very interesting dating life. That even made people thinks if he was sexually gay. But his news regarding his wife and children have suggested otherwise. In an interview with his wife, she says that they have a crazy family and the love and bond is strong between everybody. The couple has got three children by now; eldest daughter Bianca (20 years old), middle child Nadia (17 years old) and youngest son Jayden who is 12. With their oldest child living away from home, they all get together anytime possible. There isn’t any news about them getting divorced anytime soon.

Known for his well-shaped body and taking his shirt off at anyplace, there has been a wide search and views of his shirtless pictures, which can be found in the media. He also has an Instagram account where you can find his pictures and videos, or follow him on Twitter like most of his fans do. With his estimated net worth value of $6 million USD by 2015, you can find his biography in sites like IMDb and Wikipedia.