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Antonio Sanchez (born approx. 1956) is a Puerto
Rican Radio|radio and Television|television actor,
show host and producer. Very famous across Puerto
Rico, he is also known for his nickname: El
Gangster.

Sanchez began to be known in the early and middle
1980s as a radio show host. In 1987, he and friend
Hector Marcano were cast as co-hosts of television
game show La Hora de Oro on Puerto Rico's Super
Siete channel. La Hora de Oro, or The Golden Hour,
enjoyed a successful run for two years in Puerto
Rico, period in which Sanchez's face also became
familiar to the Puerto Rican public. When Marcano
moved in 1989 to Tele-Once to do a talk show named
Marcano, el Show, Sanchez was offered a job by
Telemundo Puerto Rico, to make a show that would
compete with Marcano's show. No te Duermas (Do not
go to Sleep), the show that put Sanchez against
his old friend Marcano, eventually was the
survivor of this talk show ratings battle, and
Sanchez is still host of the show.

In 1992, Sanchez began production of Minga y
Petraca, where he plays one of the main
characters. The show is still also being produced.


Sanchez also became a manager of other
entertainers. Among the people he has managed is
Giselle (singer)|Giselle. 

Sanchez also hosts a radio show, alongside Funky
Joe, named El Bayu de la Manana (The Bayu of the
Morning, Bayu being a word with no meaning in
English language|English). Both his No te Duermas
and Bayu de la Manana shows have attracted a large
list of local and international entertainers to be
interviewed by el gangster.

On May of 2005, chaos broke in his No Te Duermas
show when singer Banchy Serrano, the musical
guest, slapped another show guest as the show was
being shown live. As a consequence, both Serrano
and Sanchez now face lawsuits and could lose
450,000 US dollar|dollars each if found
responsable for the act.


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Antonio Sanchez (born 1971) is a Mexican jazz
drummer from Mexico City, who became well known
for his contribution to the Pat Metheny Group and
the Pat Metheny Trio.