2006 Father Of The Year: Victor Ramón Jorge
Because I'm Your Father | December 20My nomination for 2006 Father Of The Year goes to 48-year-old municipal worker Victor Ramón Jorge of Salta, Argentina. Victor is (according to Google’s translation of his YouTube profile) “the father of the boys who make Rock in YouTube.”
Those boys are Emilio, 15, Agustín, 11, and Martín, 10, and their as of yet unnamed band does indeed rock. Dubbed The Iron Maiden Kids across the vast interwebs, they are three young Latino dudes who LOVE their heavy metal music. In their short career, they’ve served up some Tenacious-D worthy renditions of head-banging classics from Iron Maiden, Sepultura, Slipknot, Black Sabbath and Judas Priest, among others.
Victor, who according to his wife, “likes rock, tango, national folklore and classical music,” often takes the boys to concerts, and even went so far as to trade away his computer so that Agustín could have a real set of skins on which to pound the sticks. You can clearly see the pride on Victor’s face as his boys strutted their stuff on a recent TV appearance.
In this former long-hair’s humble patriarchal opinion, any dad who is willing to encourage his boys to raise their devil signs high to the sky, ferociously bang their heads, and sing lyrics like, “The horse he sweats with fear we break to run / The mighty roar of the Russian guns / And as we race towards the human wall / The screams of pain as my comrades fall” is alright by me.
Felicitaciones Victor!
So, you wanted the best, you got the best! The hottest band in the… um… well, here they are.
While their father has his heart in the right place, it’s obvious to me that the little girl is the brains of the operation.
Hell yes! I posted this video the other day. This is why I suddenly want two more kids. The Squad can’t be Maiden all alone!
(ps - please send me the Sepultura link. I hope it’s “Roots, Bloody Roots”.)
hook ‘em horns!
that dude rules.