Walfredo Reyes, Jr.

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Walfredo Reyes, Jr.
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Reyes playing a conga with Chicago in 2013
Background information
Native name Walfredo de los Reyes Palau IV
Born (1955-12-18) December 18, 1955 (age 68)
Havana, Cuba
Genres Jazz, Latin, World music, World fusion, Afro-Cuban, and Rock
Occupation(s) session and full-time musician;
music educator and clinician
Years active 1974 (1974)—present
Associated acts Chicago, Santana, Traffic
Website Personal site
YouTube channel
Profile at Chicago
Notable instruments
Auxiliary percussion, Drum set

Walfredo "Wally" Reyes, Jr. (sometimes stylized as Walfredo de los Reyes or Walfredo de los Reyes, Jr., born December 18, 1955) is a Cuban American expert in drum set and auxiliary percussion, a music educator, and a clinician. He has performed with many jazz, Latin, World music, World fusion, Afro-Cuban, and rock bands as a touring, session recording, and full-time player. Reyes is known for his fusion of many of the world's percussion techniques, including the ability to play a drum set with his hands in addition to the traditional use of drumsticks, whereby it is said that he can "sound like a drummer and a percussionist at the same time".[1][2] He is well known for having been a long-term member of Santana, and for being the newest member of Chicago.[3][4][5]

Biography

Walfredo Reyes, Jr. was born on December 18, 1955 in Havana, Cuba. His native name of Walfredo de los Reyes Palau IV is a traditional Cuban combination of his paternal and maternal surnames. However, in his professional career, his name has taken on the Americanized truncation of Walfredo Reyes, Jr. He is a third generation musician in a prolific professional musical lineage on both sides of his family, including several globally notable percussion experts.

His father is percussion expert, Walfredo Reyes, Sr.; one brother is World music percussion expert Daniel de los Reyes; another brother is actor Kamar de los Reyes; and, his grandfather is trumpeter and Cuban orchestral organizer, Walfredo de los Reyes II.[6][7] Coincidentally, his father had been professionally credited by the same name, Walfredo Reyes, Jr., for his own percussion work throughout the 1940s to 1960s, in order to differentiate himself from his own father.[citation needed]

To characterize his intense familial roots in the musical arts, Reyes jokes, "I wanted to be a brain surgeon, but they wouldn't let me."[7]

Reyes has had a lifelong interest in the music of Chicago Transit Authority, now known as Chicago. He says that their debut album, Chicago Transit Authority, was the first album that he had ever purchased as a youth with his own money.[7]

Career

Leading up to his present role with Chicago, Reyes had had a connection with the band as a lifelong fan of Chicago, as a long-time friend of and collaborator with Chicago's drummer Tris Imboden,[8]:47 and as brother of Chicago's former auxiliary percussionist Daniel de los Reyes.[6][7]

Reyes has globally toured or recorded with many major groups, including the following:[3]

Years Artist
1983—1984 Tania Maria
1985—1988 David Lindley’s El Rayo X
1988 Jackson Browne
1988 Jimmy Barnes
1989—1993 Santana
1992 Boz Scaggs
1993 Gloria Estefan
1994 Traffic
1995 Robbie Robertson
1997—2004 Steve Winwood
1998—1999 Joe Sample
2000 Johnny Hallyday
2005 Khaled
2007—2011 Lindsey Buckingham
2008 Mickey Hart
2010—2012 El Chicano[9]
2012—present Chicago[4][5]

Discography

Select discography
Year Artist Title Credits Source
1986 Jackson Browne Lives in the Balance conductor, conga, drum set [10]
1993 Santana Sacred Fire: Live in South America member [11][12][notes 1]
1995 Frank Gambale Thinking Out Loud percussion [13][14]
2000 Johnny Hallyday 100% Johnny Live a la tour Eiffel [15]
2000 Johnny Hallyday Olympia 2000 - Live a l'Olympia [16]
2009 Thomas Lorenzo Quartet Spanish Breeze member [17]
2012 Manny Charlton Band Hellacious member [18]
2014 Chicago Chicago XXXVI: Now Member, percussion

Videography

Year Title Artist Credits Source
1981 Pippin: His Life and Times Soundtrack musician, uncredited [22]
1993 Santana: Sacred Fire, Live in Mexico Santana member [23][notes 1]
2000 100% Johnny Live a la tour Eiffel Johnny Hallyday [24]
2000 Olympia 2000 - Live a l'Olympia Johnny Hallyday [25]
2003 The Studio Percussionist, Vol. 1 Michael McFall; Dave Witham;
Walfredo de los Reyes;
Larry Klimas; John Peña		 [26]
2005 The Last Great Traffic Jam Traffic [27]
2005 Sound Stage featuring Steve Winwood Steve Winwood member [28]
2005 Global Beats for Drumset & Percussion Walfredo Reyes, Jr. author of instructional video [29]
2011 Songs from the Small Machine Lindsey Buckingham Drums
2011 The Road Divides Carl Verheyen Band Drums, percussion [30]
2014 Killer B3 Interviewee, drum set [31]

Equipment

Reyes uses and endorses the following equipment:

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Sacred Fire: Live in South America (CD audio) and Sacred Fire: Live in Mexico (DVD video) are counterparts for the same show.

References

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  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 Lives in the Balance, credits at AllMusic at AllMusic. Retrieved May 6, 2013.
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  12. ↑ Sacred Fire: Live in South America, credits at allmusic at AllMusic. Retrieved May 4, 2013.
  13. ↑ Thinking Out Loud, credits at AllMusic at AllMusic. Retrieved July 10, 2014.
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  17. ↑ Spanish Breeze, credits at Allmusic at AllMusic. Retrieved May 5, 2013.
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  19. ↑ Pop Pop, credits at Allmusic at AllMusic. Retrieved June 22, 2013.
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  21. ↑ The Road Divides, credits at Allmusic at AllMusic. Retrieved July 1, 2013.
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