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WEARING his jet black quiff like a crown, Elvis Presley curled his lip and stared down from the wall at the Rodriguez family. As the patriach looked back at his hero, it suddenly dawned on him what to call his newborn baby son.

“My dad is a big fan of Elvis. He speaks English very well so he was always listening to rock n roll music,” Elvis Rodriguez tells about his earliest days. “When I was about to be born he had a big painting of Elvis in the living room, and when I was

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