Gerry Weil
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 Gerry Weil in the cover of the 1979 album The message
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| Born | August 11, 1939 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 in the region where he lived. The north American troops, take him to know Glenn Miller, swing and the music of the afroamerican people.
Nevertheless his formation begins in 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, with the Municipal Band. Between 1974 and 1981 lives an experience of spiritual and musical isolation in Mérida, in that time he fuses the music of Bach in piano and other Hindu spiritual musical forms like Ragas. At the end of this isolation, he returns to Caracas and begins to combine his presentations with one of the tasks that Gerry Weil has developed more, teaching.
In 1983 he dedicated to elaborate his music with electronic instruments using the MIDI technology , performance that carries out his race by several years and that consecrate him as pioneering in the handling of these technologies in Venezuela. After surpassed this stage Gerry Weil returns to his more acoustic and real style music. He has been also the producer of 2 discs, Maria Rivas and Desorden Público (1990), and has participated in other musical productions.
