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| − | + | Bill Summers, born on June 27, 1948, is a former Detroit Observatory Student and a renowned Afro-Cuban/Latin Jazz percussionist and multi-instrumentalist, based in New Orleans. | |
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==Biography== | ==Biography== | ||
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Bill Summers attend the University of California, Berkley. | Bill Summers attend the University of California, Berkley. | ||
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Bill Summers worked with the multi-award-winning group Los Hombres Calientes, with Quincy Jones on the musical score for Roots, contributed to the musical soundtracks of several movies including The Color Purple and participated in the prestigious Yoruba order of sacred drummers by Estaban “Cha Chhaa” Vega, the most celebrated and honoured drummer in Cuba. He is also a veteran of the Walter Payton Trio and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and the Head of the “Summers Multi-Ethnic Institute of the Arts”. | Bill Summers worked with the multi-award-winning group Los Hombres Calientes, with Quincy Jones on the musical score for Roots, contributed to the musical soundtracks of several movies including The Color Purple and participated in the prestigious Yoruba order of sacred drummers by Estaban “Cha Chhaa” Vega, the most celebrated and honoured drummer in Cuba. He is also a veteran of the Walter Payton Trio and Herbie Hancock’s Headhunters and the Head of the “Summers Multi-Ethnic Institute of the Arts”. | ||
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[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmcsFQkD11U ICD - "An interview with Bill Summers, ICD Advisory Board Member; Celebrated American Musician" The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy (December 2013). ] | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmcsFQkD11U ICD - "An interview with Bill Summers, ICD Advisory Board Member; Celebrated American Musician" The Annual Conference on Cultural Diplomacy (December 2013). ] | ||
| − | [ | + | [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iD5YYYW6ljg ICD - "Bill Summers & The Power of Music as Cultural Diplomacy" (October 2012). ] |
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== External links == | == External links == | ||
