Drummers - Alex Acuña
Alejandro Acuña aka Alex Acuña (born December 12, 1944)
is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist.
History
Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of
ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined
the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved to Puerto Rico. In 1974
Acuña moved to Las Vegas, working with artists such as Elvis Presley and
Diana Ross, and the following year he joined the jazz-fusion group
Weather Report, appearing on the albums Black Market and Heavy Weather.
Acuña left Weather Report in 1978, and became a session musician in
California, recording and playing live with (amongst many others) Paul
McCartney, Joni Mitchell, Ella Fitzgerald, Chick Corea, Whitney Houston,
Plácido Domingo, Phil Keaggy, Sam Phillips, former Weather Report
bandmates Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul, Herbie Hancock, Carlos Santana,
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beck, Roberta Flack, U2 and Al Jarreau.
In the 1980s Acuna also recorded and toured with the Christian jazz band
Koinonia, which featured session musicians Abraham Laboriel, Justo
Almario, Hadley Hockensmith, Harland Rogers, and Bill Maxwell.
He has also worked as an educator at University of California, Los
Angeles and Berklee College of Music.
Discography
* (1976) Black Market - Weather Report
* (1977) Heavy Weather - Weather Report
* (1992) Thinking of You - Alex Acuña and the Unknowns
* (2000) Acuarela de Tambores - Alex Acuña
* (2002) Los Hijos del Sol: To My Country - Alex Acuña
Awards
* "Best Latin/Brazilian Percussionist", Modern Drummer's Readers Poll.
From:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Acu%C3%B1a
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