Herb Alpert Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Herb Alpert Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American trumpeter who led

Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass in the 1960s. During the same decade,

he co-founded A&M Records with Jerry Moss. He is an artist who paints

and sculpts abstract expressionist works and is a philanthropist with

his wife, Lani Hall, through the Herb Alpert Foundation. His career as

a musician includes recording five No. 1 albums and 28 albums on the

Billboard magazine album chart, fourteen platinum albums, fifteen gold

albums, and nine Grammy Awards. He has sold 72 million records

worldwide. Alpert is the only musician to hit No. 1 on the U.S.

Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love

with You", 1968) and an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979).Herb Alpert was

born and raised in the Boyle Heights section of Eastside Los Angeles,

California, the son of Tillie (née Goldberg) and Louis Leib Alpert.

His parents were Jewish immigrants to the U.S. from Radomyshl (in

present-day Ukraine) and Romania.Alpert was born into a family of

musicians. His father, although a tailor by trade, was also a talented

mandolin player. His mother taught violin at a young age, and his

older brother, David, was a talented young drummer. Herb began trumpet

lessons at the age of eight and played at dances as a teenager.

Acquiring an early wire recorder in high school, he experimented on

this crude equipment. After graduating from Fairfax High School in

1952, he joined the United States Army and frequently performed at

military ceremonies. After his service in the Army, Alpert tried his

hand at acting, but eventually settled on pursuing a career in music.
Herb Alpert Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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