Four-time Grammy-nominated recording artist and US Artist Fontanals
Fellow, John
Santos has been called "a spark plug of musical invention." His
extensive exploration of Afro-Latin music has earned him performance
and recording credits with Eddie Palmieri, Cal Tjader, Lalo Schifrin,
Irakere West, Danilo Perez, Dizzy Gillespie, Tito Puente, Max Roach,
Los Papines, and Ignacio Berroa. Santos, a lifelong resident of the
San Francisco Bay Area, is a composer, writer and producer, and has
served as faculty and/or resident artist/instructor at several renowned
institutions including Stanford, Yale, UCLA, Michigan, Madison, Monterey
Bay, Interamericana (Puerto Rico), San Jose, and San Francisco State
Universities as well as Boston's Berklee School of Music. More>
