ALEX ACUÑA

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Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña (born December 12, 1944) is a Peruvian Afro-Cuban jazz drummer and percussionist.

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,
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ALEX ACUÑA Alex Acuña & The Unknowns : Thinking Of You album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Alex Acuña & The Unknowns : Thinking Of You
Fusion 1990
ALEX ACUÑA Acuarela de Tambores album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Acuarela de Tambores
Fusion 2000
ALEX ACUÑA Los Hijos del Sol / Alex Acuña & Eva Ayllón ‎– To My Country (Contemporary Peruvian Music) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Los Hijos del Sol / Alex Acuña & Eva Ayllón ‎– To My Country (Contemporary Peruvian Music)
Fusion 2002
ALEX ACUÑA No Accent album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
No Accent
Fusion 2004
ALEX ACUÑA Jungle City (with Hoff / Mathisen) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jungle City (with Hoff / Mathisen)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2009
ALEX ACUÑA Barxeta (with Jan Gunnar Hoff / Per Mathisen) album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Barxeta (with Jan Gunnar Hoff / Per Mathisen)
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2012
ALEX ACUÑA Gifts album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Gifts
Fusion 2022

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Acuna-Hoff-Mathisen Trio in Concert
Post-Fusion Contemporary 2010

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