David Sanchez Rivera
David Sanchez Rivera
Independent
Spain

He was born in Zaragoza, Spain, at 1989. Since he was a child, he has been really obssesed with Afrocuban music and the term called “Percussion independence”. His first contact with music and percussion was the traditonal rudimentary drum at Easter of Aragón. As he was very interested in music, he tooked percussion classes from Tomás Hermoso, who was the first person who teaches him latin percussion. Then, he started classical percussion studies at Zaragoza´s Official Music School, and later, he went on studying at Proffesional Music School San Vicente de Paul. Some years later, he started learning modern drumming, from teachers like Enrique Casanova and Francisco Gazol, and also latin percussion , being his principal referents Horacio “El Negro” Hernández and “Juan Formell y Los Vanvan”. Due to Cuban music influence, He travelled to Cuba to study closely its folklore, and just in this moment he starts to develope his percussion independence skills. In addition, he has been working simultaneously on musical teaching, studio recordings, as theater musical actor, and with different bands and latin groups. Since 2016 until now, he have been studying latin percussion and drum set with the cuban teacher Yoel Páez, who has transmitted to him lots of concepts related to creativity and percussion independence. During the last years, He have been teaching several latin percussion masterclasses, for example in the famous camp “PercuFest Valencia”

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