Alan Pasqua’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro American pianist
Is Musician 
Educator 
Music educator 
Jazz musician 
Pianist 
From United States of America 
Type Academia 
Music 
Gender male
Birth 28 June 1952, New Jersey
Age: 68 years
Family
Spouse: Heather Langenkamp

Alan Pasqua (born June 28, 1952 in New Jersey) is an American jazz pianist, educator, and composer. He co-composed the CBS Evening News theme. He has also had an extensive career in pop and rock music, most notably as a founding member, keyboardist, and songwriter of the 1980s hard rock band, Giant. He studied at Indiana University and the New England Conservatory of Music. His album Standards with drummer Peter Erskine was nominated for a Grammy Award. As a session musician, he has toured and recorded with Bob Dylan, Cher, Michael Bublé, Eddie Money, Allan Holdsworth, Joe Walsh, Pat Benatar, Rick Springfield, Juice Newton, Prism, and Santana among many others.

Biography

Pasqua grew up in Roselle Park, New Jersey.

Pasqua joined The New Tony Williams Lifetime and appeared on the albums Believe It and Million Dollar Legs. He then went on to perform with Eddie Money’s band, after which he then joined Bob Dylan’s band. Pasqua recorded two albums with Dylan (Bob Dylan at Budokan and Street-Legal). In the 1980s he performed with John Fogerty on the album Eye of the Zombie, with Starship on the album No Protection, with Allan Holdsworth on the album Sand, and joined Carlos Santana as keyboardist on Marathon, Zebop! and Havana Moon.

He was a founding member of the late-1980s rock band Giant, and he co-wrote the band’s biggest hit, “I’ll See You in My Dreams.”

Discography

  • Milagro (Postcards, 1994)
  • Dedications (Postcards, 1995)
  • Russian Peasant (Blue Forest, 2000)
  • The Music of Eric Von Essen, Vol. 1 (Cryptogramophone, 2000)
  • The Music of Eric von Essen, Vol. 2 (Cryptogramophone, 2001)
  • Latin Jazz (Yamaha Artists, 2001)
  • Body & Soul (Video Arts, 2004)
  • My New Old Friend (Cryptogramophone, 2005)
  • Solo (Alan Pasqua, 2007)
  • Standards (Fuzzy, 2007)
  • The Anti-Social Club (Cryptogramophone, 2007)
  • Blues for Tony (MoonJune, 2010)
  • Twin Bill: Two Piano Music of Bill Evans (BFM Jazz, 2011)
  • The Interlochen Concert (Fuzzy, 2016)

As co-leader

With Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Darek Oleszkiewicz

  • Standards 2: Movie Music (Fuzzy Music, 2010)
  • “Alan Pasqua | Album Discography | AllMusic”. AllMusic. Retrieved 27 December 2016. 
You May Also Like

Dizzee Rascal’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Dizzee Rascal Net Worth: Dizzee Rascal is an English musician and record producer who has a net worth of $3.5 million dollars. Born Dylan Kwabena Mills in 1985, Dizzee Rascal got his start in Bow, East London, England. He started playing with music on a school computer and attended a workshop at Tower Hamlets Summer University. Rascal began working as an amateur DJ and produced his own debut single, “I Luv U”, when he was 16 years old. He won Best Newcomer MC at the Sidewinder Awards that same year and earned a spot as a judge on “Must Be The Music” on Sky1. He released his debut solo album, “Boy in da Corner”, in 2003, and it climbed to number 23 on the U.K. charts. While on tour with his group, the Roll Deep Crow, Rascal was stabbed multiple times in Ayia Napa. He continued to work on his music, and his follow-up single, “Fix Up, Look Sharp,” broke into the top 20 in the U.K. His debut album went on to win Best Album of 2003 with a Mercury Prize, the youngest person to ever win the honors. A year later, he released his follow-up album, “Showtime”, which debuted in the top ten. Since 2003, Rascal has dropped five studio albums as of 2014, including 2007’s “Maths + English”, 2009’s “Tongue n’ Cheek”, and 2013’s “The Fifth”. “Tongue n’ Cheek” went platinum after its release. Rascal was nominated for two more Mercury Prizes, won Best Male at the 2009 Urban Music Awards, and Best International Act at the 2010 BET Awards. He can be heard rapping two lines on the Band Aid 20 re-make of the Christmas song, “Do They Know It’s Christmas?”. He owns his own record label, Dirtee Stank. Several of his songs are featured in video games, including “Fix Up, Look Sharp” in “DJ Hero” and “Bonkers” in “Need for Speed: Nitro”.
Read More

Steve Clifford’s net worth, biography, fact, career, awards and life story

Steve Clifford net worth and salary: Steve Clifford is an American professional basketball coach who has a net worth of $4 million. Steve Clifford was born in Lincoln, Maine in May 1961. Steve played basketball for North Country Union High School and the University of Maine at Farmington. He graduated with a degree in special education and started teaching at Woodland High School where he was also head coach of the basketball team from 1983 to 1985. From 1985 to 1989 Clifford was an assistant coach for Saint Anselm College. He was an assistant at Fairfield University from 1989 to 1990, Boston University from 1990 to 1994, and Siena College from 1994 to 1995. Clifford got his first college head coaching job with Adelphi University from 1995 to 1999. From 1999 to 2000 he was an assistant at East Carolina University. He then went to the NBA first becoming an advance scout for the New York Knicks from 2000 to 2001 and then an assistant coach for the team from 2001 to 2003. Clifford was an assistant coach for the Houston Rockets from 2003 to 2007, the Orlando Magic from 2007 to 2012, and the Los Angeles Lakers from 2012 to 2013. In 2013 he became head coach of the Charlotte Bobcats/Hornets. In his first year with Charlotte Clifford led the team to the playoffs and a record of 43 – 39.
Read More