Balboa Park
2100 Park Blvd
Near Presidents Way
San Diego, California 92101
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Description
Select the right mood for your next event, from Latin Jazz, Rumba to the full blown Hip-Hop sounds with live congas, timbales and many Latin percussion instruments!! We have already provided talent for many successful events such as stadiums, family events, corporate events, bachelor/bachelorette parties, night clubs and dance classes.
Juan Sanchez’s was born in San Diego in a musically inclined family. His career as a performer began at the age of two in his mother’s Mexican ballet folkloric dance troupe, the “Children’s Cultural Center Ballet Xochitl”. Juan grew up in Tijuana Mexico until 8 years old and always enrolled in all the music and art classes. Surrounding him-self by musicians and artists and was always anointed as the drum section leader in Chula Vista jr. high and high school.
At 17, while still in high school, Juan became a professional musician/instructor when he auditioned and was selected as one of the top two percussionists in the San Diego County for the Sea World’s “Sea Stars” band. During this time he was instructing several high school drum-lines. He continued to work during the summer in Sea World’s entertainment department for 2 years. Opening up for Sea World’s Shamu and Ski Show. Later he auditioned and was accepted to the SDSU music program.
Juan continued to becoming drum section leader for the Marching Aztecs, while simultaneously performing and touring with a Scottish pipe band called the “Cameron Highlanders”. During the summer for 2 years he would commute to Anaheim Los Angeles California drumming with the Velvet Knights Drum and Bugle Core under the direction of Tom Float, instructor and arranger for the Blue Devils. Later that year with Paul Rennick instructor and arranger for Phantom Regiment and Santa Clara Vanguard. The pioneers of international rudimental drumming and the contributers of hybrid rudiments. It was also at SDSU, under the direction of Mark Lamson, where Juan began his study on Latin percussion.
In 2004, he founded the longest running Afro-Cuban Drumming program in San Diego at the World Beat Cultural Center. In 2006, Sanchez travelled to Cuba where he was formally introduced to Afro-Cuban music with Pepito Fernandez, a local rumbero from the Calljon de Jamel.