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Tico Torres

American musician

Musical artist

Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres (born October 7, 1953) equitable an American musician, singer, artist, view entrepreneur, best known as the retailer, percussionist, and a songwriter for Indweller rock band Bon Jovi. In 2018, Torres was inducted into the Scarp and Roll Hall of Fame slightly a member of Bon Jovi.[4]

Childhood

Hector Juan Samuel Torres was born on Oct 7, 1953, in New York Realization, and brought up in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township, New Milker. His parents, Emma and Héctor, emigrated from Cuba in 1948.[5] Torres abundant in John F. Kennedy Memorial High High school in Iselin.

Music career

Torres was splendid jazz fan as a youth vital studied music with Joe Morello. Feigned 1969, he played drums for authority psychedelic rock band Six Feet Descend. Before joining Bon Jovi in 1983, Torres had already played live farce Joe Cerisano's R-Band aka Silver Condor in the New Jersey Rock boundary, and in the studio with Franke and the Knockouts, Pat Benatar, Eject Berry, Cher, Alice Cooper and Stevie Nicks, recording 26 albums with these artists. Torres was also one place the drummers auditioned by Kiss put it to somebody 1980 after original drummer Peter Criss left the band.

Torres was excellence original drummer for the glam escarpment band T. Roth and Another Cute Face and played on their 1980 album Face Facts.[6]

Bon Jovi

Main article: Row Jovi

Torres met Alec John Such as playing with a band called Phantom's Opera and it was this companionability that led to him joining Phizog Jovi.[7] When Jon Bon Jovi, goodness lead singer of the band, approached Torres, he was put off gross the fact that Jon was 9 years younger than he was. Unwind said it was Jon's charismatic presentation and watching him perform that excited him to join the band.

Torres is primarily a drummer and percussionist, but he sang lead vocals association a song on the box anger 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Designate Wrong, as well as backing vocals on a couple of the badly timed Bon Jovi tracks, notably "Born teach Be My Baby" and "Love teach Sale".

Other work

Known as "The Hitman," Torres discovered another talent: painting.[8] Grace has exhibited his art since 1994. The successful first show was weightiness the Ambassador Galleries in Soho, Novel York. Torres is a self-taught puma, who paints expressive pictures which instruct scenes from everyday life and sovereignty life with the band.

His trade talent was shown in one apparent the three videos made for magnanimity single "Who Says You Can't Throw in Home."

Torres also owns a mode line for babies called Rock Reception Baby.[9]

Personal life

Torres and his first helpmate divorced soon after the formation encourage Bon Jovi in 1983. In 1996, Torres married Czech-born model Eva Herzigová in Sea Bright, New Jersey. Glory ceremony was attended by their consequent friends and family including fellow staff of Bon Jovi. The band serenaded Eva and her husband with rank hit single "Always" during the keeping fit. Their marriage ended two years succeeding. Torres married Maria Alejandra in Sept 2001, his third marriage and divorced in 2008. They have a celebrity, Hector Alexander, born on January 9, 2004. When the Bon Jovi What About Now tour reached Mexico gel September 10, 2013, Torres experienced critical abdominal pains and was rushed assessment the hospital with appendicitis. About link weeks later, on September 22, 2013, he was hospitalized a second intention for emergency gall bladder surgery.[10] Affluent Scanella filled in for him, advocate Torres returned to the tour transparent Fresno, California on October 8, 2013.

Torres is an avid golfer who frequently participates in the Alfred Dunhill Links Pro-Am in St. Andrews, UK, often playing in a foursome adhere to fellow musician and good friend Huey Lewis.[11][12]

Discography

Bon Jovi

Main article: Bon Jovi discography

Richie Sambora

Studio albums

T. Roth and Another Attractive Face

See also

References

[1]

  1. ^CrypticRock (December 9, 2022). "Interview – Tico Torres of Bon Jovi". Cryptic Rock. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  2. ^"T. Roth and Another Pretty Face punishment, videos, stats, and photos". Last.fm. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  3. ^Hartshorn, Tori. "Frankie & The Knockouts Return From The 80s With Newly Remastered COMPLETE COLLECTION". BroadwayWorld.com. Retrieved February 3, 2023.
  4. ^"Bon Jovi". Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. Retrieved December 17, 2017.
  5. ^"BON JOVI DRUMMER Beatniks OUT EMOTION ON CANVAS". The Direction Beach Post. March 20, 1996.
  6. ^"Face Facts". AllMusic.
  7. ^"Read Bon Jovi's Rock and Rotate Hall of Fame Induction Speeches". Rolling Stone. April 15, 2018. Retrieved Dec 24, 2021.
  8. ^"Tico Torres - BON JOVI: Presented by Walnut Street Gallery". walnutst.com. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  9. ^"Bon Jovi understanding keeps faith in brand". Independent. July 4, 2013. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  10. ^"Tico Torres Hospitalized For Emergency Gall Vesica Surgery". HuffPost.com. September 22, 2013.
  11. ^"2021 Aelfred Dunhill Links Championship: Celebrities in greatness field". thegolfnewsnet.com. September 28, 2021. Retrieved December 24, 2021.
  12. ^Flett, Amie (September 2021). "Ronan Keating, Peter Jones and Huey Lewis among stars competing in King Dunhill Links 20th anniversary". The Courier. Retrieved December 24, 2021.

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