Horacio Hernández

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Horacio "El Negro" Hernández (born April 24, 1963 in Havana ) is a Cuban drummer and percussionist . He made a decisive contribution to fusing Cuban rhythms with current jazz and rock music .

Live and act

Hernández comes from a musical family: his grandfather played traditional Cuban music as a trumpeter, including for the Septeto Nacional . His father was a well-known music journalist who presented jazz programs on the radio , his brothers Papito, Kike and Felo Hernández are bassists . He studied at the music faculty of the Escuela Nacional de Arte (National Art School) and became a master student of Enrique Plá , the drummer of Irakere . From 1986 he was one of the most important studio musicians in Cuba.

He became internationally known as the companion of Gonzalo Rubalcaba . In 1990 he applied for political asylum in Italy while on tour . There he founded the Latin jazz sextet Tercer Mundo together with Javier Girotto . He also played and taught at the “Timba” drum center in Rome . He moved from Italy to New York City , where a few days after his arrival he was hired by Paquito D'Rivera to record the album Forty Years of Cuban Jam Sessions . He then worked with Michel Camilo , as well as with Dave Valentin and with the TropiJazz All-Stars . He has also been involved in the recording of several Grammy- awarded albums , such as Carlos Santana's Supernatural (1999), Alejandro Sanz ' No es lo mismo (2003) and Eddie Palmieri's Listen here (2005). As a member of the band Roy Hargroves Crisol , he won his first Grammy in 1997 for the album Habana and his second for Michel Camilo's album Live at the Blue Note , recorded together with Camilo and bassist Charles Flores.

Together with Robby Ameen , he presented two records. Since 2004 he has performed with his band Italuba , which was also nominated for a Grammy, and since 2011 with The New World Order . He has made several solo appearances at the Modern Drummer's Festival. He has worked repeatedly with Kip Hanrahan and has also recorded with numerous musicians such as Jack Bruce , Joanne Brackeen , Gary Burton , David Kinkade , Uli Lenz and David Sánchez . In 2012 he could be heard with the WDR Big Band Cologne in the program A Night In Havana .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Portrait (A Night in Havana)
  2. ↑ a b Ken Ross: Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez: Cream of the Cuban Drumset Crop. ( Memento of the original from August 9, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / elnegro.com archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Modern Drummer from October 1995, accessed from Hernández's personal website on October 14, 2013 (English)
  3. ↑ Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez , on grammy.com , accessed on December 11, 2019 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Hernández, Horacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hernández, El Negro (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban drummer and percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Havana