Dafnis Prieto
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Cuban composer, educator and jazz drummer
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Dafnis Prieto's Degrees
- Bachelors Jazz Performance Berklee College of Music
- Masters Composition New England Conservatory of Music
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Dafnis Prieto is a Cuban-American drummer, composer, bandleader, and educator. Career In his home town of Santa Clara, Cuba, Prieto studied percussion and guitar. During his teens, he moved to Havana to study at the National School of Music. He concentrated on classical music and Afro-Cuban music before paying more attention to jazz. In 1999, when he was twenty-five, Prieto moved to New York City, where he worked with Eddie Palmieri, Carlos Barbosa-Lima, Arturo O'Farrill, Dave Samuels, and Michel Camilo, among many others.
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