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David Sánchez
David Sanchez is a well known, 2005 Grammy winning jazz tenor saxophonist from Hato Rey, Puerto Rico born in September 1968.

EEarly life
Sanchez took up the conga when he was eight and started playing tenor saxophone at age 12. The earliest influences were Afro-Caribbean and danza but also European and Latin classical. At 12 Sanchez attended La Escuela Libre de Musica which emphasized formal musical studies and classical European styles and two years later, 1982, was much taken with a Miles Davis album, Basic Miles, featuring John Coltrane as well as Lady in Satin, a 1958 album by Billie Holiday with strings, arranged and conducted by Ray Ellis. Sanchez considered a college career in psychology but auditioned at Berklee and Rutgers University. Sanchez chose Rutgers because he got a better scholarship and was near New York which was Sanchez' goal. While at Rutgers, Sanchez studied with Kenny Barron, Ted Dunbar, and John Purcell...
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