Welcome back to Friends Edition! Stoked to be featuring another one of my closest friends! We met at Cornel School of Music where we were studying drums together. Not only a great drummer and percussionist, but JD is someone I consider my brother and I'm blessed to have him on the show! Enjoy!
\nAbout Juan David Perez
\nLos Angeles based drummer and percussionist Juan David, known as \u201cJD\u201d Perez was born to a musical family in Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. At a young age he moved to the United States when his father, Nando Perez, began touring. Growing up in two different countries and with the mentorship of saxophone great Justo Almario and legend Alex Acu\xf1a (who played together with his father in the band \u201cTolu\u201d), JD became exposed to a broad spectrum of genres such as Pop, Funk, Latin, Gospel, Afro-Colombian, Country, Latin-Jazz, Indie, and R&B.
\nJD has paved his way ever since and worked with a wide range of artists and on various productions such as the Latin AMA\u2019s (2016-2017) with Prince Royce, Becky G, Aimee Nuviola, America\u2019s Got Talent (2019), The EMMY\u2019s Governors Ball (2019), Kanye West\u2019s Sunday Service (2019) and Big Sean\u2019s upcoming album (2020). He is the drummer for the well-known River Church in Anaheim, Calif. for the past five years and has currently worked as the house band drummer for latin late night shows: \u201cDante Night Show\u201d , \u201cNos Cayo La Noche\u201d and \u201cTu Night con Omar Chaparro\u201d airing across the U.S and latin America.
\nJD received his Bachelor of Music in 2017 at the Cornel School of Contemporary Music, where he was awarded with a full scholarship after receiving a Drum Performance degree at Musicians Institute. Studying with the likes of Abraham Laboriel Sr and Jimmy Branly has helped him develop his own sound and incorporate both worlds he grew up with into one.
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