![]() ![]() The Great Singers: Pop singers and song stylists of the 40’s through the 60’s offering ballads and standards, and the most popular show in that radio market- Pipes on Parade: Theatre organ music in old and new recordings from all over the world. The KBCH shows included: On The Air: Dance bands, sweet music, and personalities of the 20’s and 30’s. Matías went on to produce 3 other popular weekly programmes. The Popcorn Hour, co-hosted by the owner of the Bijou Theatre, Keith Altomare, was a huge success. While there, he was approached to do a movie talk show on the local commercial AM radio station, KBCH. The owner of the Bijou Theatre in Lincoln City, Oregon, brought Matías to the central Oregon coast in 1996 for 6 years to manage and operate that 1937 theatre. Matías was featured with the Music Masters Orchestra as a singer and announcer, working closely with noted big-band leader Dick Jurgens who would help rehearsing the band that played "Hotel" style arrangements of tunes from the 20's and 30's. TV 58, KSCH, Sacramento brought Matías to the small screen as a Sunday night movie host, introducing classic movies in a trademark tuxedo (movie palace managers were never seen in anything else) This led to work as master of ceremonies at numerous theatrical events throughout California on stage, screen, television and radio. He was featured as a cashier in an independent black & white comedy short silent film 9 Items or Less. He has appeared as an extra and/or lent his production assistance to the films Bird, Pink Cadillac, Xenia, Wisdom, and an episode of Highway to Heaven. He was directly involved with reviving Sacramento’s Guild and Colonial Theatres, as well as working in the Tower, Sacramento Inn, and Crestview theatres as promoter, booker, historian and all around showman. He made a considerable impression on the valley’s show going public in his tenure there from 1986 to 1991, with colorful stage introductions and clever and rare film bookings. At nineteen years of age and on sheer enthusiasm, he was placed in charge of the restoration and management of Sacramento's historic Crest Theatre. records.įollowing a move in 1976 to Sacramento, Matías began his life-long love of the movies and their exhibition. The next logical musical step was jazz! Matías developed an intense interest in the music of the 1920's and 1930's from listening to his grandmother’s 78 r.p.m. Matías grew up and learning Spanish and English at the same time in an environment of classical music. ![]() His mother, Judy Nevis, is a native Californian and has had a career in public service as a Deputy Director with California’s Department of Housing. They moved to Berkeley, California in 1968, where his father was teaching. The poet Pablo Neruda was a close friend in a family that included the Chilean novelist Maria Lusia Bombal. His father, Antonio Bombal, was a professor of comparative literature and in his later life, a piano tuner. Born in Santiago, Chile, June 3, 1967, Matías was surrounded by the arts at an early age. Matías Bombal, the host of “Matías Bombal’s Hollywood,” has been seen and heard in many entertainment venues as a master of ceremonies throughout California. ![]()
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