Alex Acuña

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Alex Acuña

Alejandro Neciosup Acuña (born December 12, 1944 in Pativilca , Peru ), Alex Acuña for short , is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist .

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Alejandro Neciosup Acuña was born on December 12, 1944 in Pativilca , Peru . As a teenager he moved to Lima and played in several local groups. At eighteen he played in the group of Pérez Prado , but moved to Puerto Rico in 1967 .

Seven years later, in 1974, he finally moved to Las Vegas and worked with various artists, including a. Elvis Presley and Diana Ross . A year later he joined the fusion jazz group " Weather Report ", with whom he recorded the albums Black Market and Heavy Weather . In 1978 Acuña left "Weather Report" and from then on worked with several well-known artists, such as Paul McCartney , Joni Mitchell , Ella Fitzgerald , Chick Corea , Whitney Houston , Plácido Domingo , Phil Keaggy, Charles Owens , Sam Phillips , Wayne Shorter and Joe Zawinul , Herbie Hancock , Carlos Santana , Antônio Carlos Jobim , Beck , Roberta Flack , U2 , Al Jarreau and Lalo Schifrin . In the 80s, Acuña toured and made some recordings with the band Koinonia .

He works intermittently as a lecturer at the University of California in Los Angeles and the Berklee College of Music .

Discographic notes

  • 1976: Black Market - Weather Report
  • 1977: Heavy Weather - Weather Report
  • 1983: More Than a Feeling - Koinonia
  • 1984: Celebration - Koinonia
  • 1986: Frontline - Koinonia
  • 1991: Same - Alex Acuña and the Unknows
  • 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

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