Rudy Regalado (musician)
| Rudy Regalado | |
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| Background information | |
| Born |
January 29, 1943 Caracas, Venezuela |
| Died | November 4, 2010 (aged 67) Las Vegas, Nevada |
| Genres | Latin, rock, Latin Jazz, Cuban music, Puerto Rican music, Music of Venezuela |
| Instruments | Timbales, drums |
| Years active | 1960–2010 |
| Associated acts |
Alex Acuña El Chicano Aretha Franklin Alphonse Mouzon Quincy Jones Bill Summers Zawinul Syndicate |
Héctor José Regalado (January 29, 1943 – November 4, 2010) was a Venezuelan Latin music bandleader, percussionist, composer and educator. He played professionally under the name Rudy Regalado.
Although he toured extensively in a career spanning more than 50 years, Rudy Regalado is better known for being one of the key members of El Chicano's percussion section, a popular Los Angeles-based group that surfaced during the Santana and Malo Latin-tinged rock era in the early 1970s. Besides this, Regalado led his own groups including the stage band Chévere and performed on countless recording sessions with distinguished artists. In addition to recording five albums with El Chicano, he also collaborated in projects led by Alex Acuña, Quincy Jones, Alphonse Mouzon, Bill Summers and Joe Zawinul, among others.
Regalado was born and raised in a working-class family in Caracas, the capital city of Venezuela. Largely self-taught, he started to play drums and timbales as a teenager in his home town. A devoted baseball fan, he adopted his nickname after former Cleveland Indians infielder Rudy Regalado.
In 1963, Regalado moved to Puerto Rico and started playing in hotels and clubs in the San Juan area, while studying harmony and percussion at Pablo Casals Conservatory of Music. He settled in Los Angeles, California in 1970, where he played with local jazz and Latin groups before joining El Chicano late in the year.
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