Alex Acuña
Alejandro Neciosup Acuña ( born December 12, 1944 in Pativilca, Peru ), short Alex Acuña is a Peruvian drummer and percussionist.
Curriculum vitae
Alejandro Acuña Neciosup was born on 12 December 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 Perez Prado, but moved in 1967 to Puerto Rico.
Seven years later, in 1974, he eventually moved to Las Vegas and worked with various artists, including Elvis Presley and Diana Ross. A year later he joined the jazz fusion group " Weather Report", with whom he recorded the albums Black Market and Heavy Weather. 1978 left Acuña "Weather Report " and from then on worked with several well-known artists together, 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, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Beck, Roberta Flack, U2, Al Jarreau and Lalo Schifrin. In the 80 years Acuña toured with the band " Koinonia " and made some shots.
He sometimes works as a lecturer at the University of California at Los Angeles and the Berklee College of Music.