Gerry Weil

Gerry Weil

Infobox Person
name= Gerry Weil


caption=
birth_date= Birth date and age|1939|8|11|mf=y
birth_place= Vienna, Austria

Gerry Weil was born in Vienna, Austria, August 11, 1939. His contact with the jazz comes by the presence of the American army at the region where he lived. The North American troops, take him to know Glenn Miller, swing and the afroamerican music.

Nevertheless his formation begins at his second country, Venezuela (since 1957). At the age of 17, he began to take classes with professional musicians. He forms by a self-taught education, takes courses by correspondence from Boston (Berklee College of Music). His professional activity has been developed in Venezuela, in spite of some appearances in Colombia. Between 1974 and 1981 lives an experience of spiritual and musical isolation in Mérida, at that time fuses the Bach piano music, and Hindu spiritual genres like the Ragas. At the end of this isolation, returns to Caracas continue at his musical career, and begins like music teacher.

In 1983 dedicated to elaborate his music with electronic instruments using the MIDI technology , performance that carries out his career by several years and that consecrate him as pioneering in the handling of these technologies in Venezuela. After that, Weil returns to his acoustic and real style music. Gerry Weil, has been the producer of artists and groups like Maria Rivas, and Desorden Público, between others.

External links

* [http://www.gerryweilprojects.com/ Gerry Weil website]
* [http://www.sincopa.com/jazz/artists/gerry_weil.htm Gerry Weil Discography]
* [http://php.mci.gob.ve/sonidos/sonidos.php?son=56 The song "Agé" by Gerry Weil]
* [http://php.mci.gob.ve/sonidos/sonidos.php?son=99 The song "Caballito frenao" by Gerry Weil]


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