Jose Valdes

Quick Facts

Full Name	Jose Valdes
Occupation	Pianist
Date Of Birth	Aug 4, 1957(1957-08-04)
Age	67
Birthplace	Chicago
Country	United States
Birth City	Illinois
Horoscope	Leo

Jose Valdes Biography

Jose Valdes is one of the most popular and richest Pianist who was born on August 4, 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. It was the foundation of Valdes Music Productions and created the Latin Jazztet, Mambo Allstars, Jazz Facets, and The International VMP Orchestra.

The first time he heard music in his early years was from watching the television series featuring Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante as well as His primary exposure to music as a child came from watching the TV shows of Steve Allen, Jimmy Durante, and Lawrence Welk..

José Angel Valdes (born August 4, 1957) is a Jazz, Latin jazz and classical pianist, organist and bandleader.

In 1972 he joined a soul music band known as Purple Sunshine where he first performed in public on organ and saxophone. During the next year, he started his first Latin band, Los Diamantes Negros, a five-piece dance/pop band. In both bands, he played Hammond organ and Fender Rhodes electric piano. While in high school, he expanded the band to eight pieces, adding a brass section. Valdes wrote charts, transcribed and arranged music and acted as bandleader. His favorite musicians included Edgar Winter, The Brecker Brothers, Grand Funk Railroad, Sly and the Family Stone, and the Latin music acts such as El Gran Combo, José José, and the Fania All-Stars. Through his college years, he performed with his band at venues in Chicago.

His father, who was also known as Jose was a lover of bebop, jazz, and Mexican music His mom Elena was a huge fan of music from classical, particularly the waltzes composed by Johann Strauss II.

Jose Valdes Net Worth

Jose Valdes is one of the richest Pianist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jose Valdes 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He received weekly piano lessons with the nuns at the parochial school in the area, but his parents didn’t have an instrument and he had to use tables to practice his fingers.

He was a huge fan of bands such as Sly and the Family Stone, Grand Funk Railroad, and The Brecker Brothers, while when he was in high school.

Valdes started piano at age six in elementary school, taking piano lessons from a nun that came to the public school he attended. His predilection for piano was partially influenced by the pianists he saw on television, such as Steve Allen, Liberace, Oscar Levant and Lawrence Welk. He discovered the organ while going to the Sears store with his parents. He taught himself the Magnus chord organ library of books. The organ had 12 chord buttons and a 3-octave keyboard which he played for two years. When he was eleven, his parents bought him a Hammond organ. He took lessons at a store in downtown Chicago with Paul Renard, who became the author of The Music Dynamics Method for Sight Reading, staff organist for Hammond, and co-inventor of the Wurlitzer electric piano which was developed in 1954 at the Wurlitzer Company in Chicago along with Howard Holman.

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Facts & Trivia

Jose Ranked on the list of most popular Pianist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Jose Valdes celebrates birthday on August 4 of every year.