Alexandra Gerhard-García

Alexandra Gerhard-García was created and was raised in Cologne, Germany, but her origins result from the Caribbean nation of Venezuela, her mother’s house, and Germany, which is her father’s house and functioning place. One do not need to question why Gerhard-García is indeed near music, it is because most of her existence she has experienced contact with music artists. Her dad can be a well-known maker and guitarist who regularly brought music into her existence, even at an extremely early age. When she considered a profession, to be always a professional musician was the very last thing on her brain as she wished to become a physician. For a long period, she was particular about her decision, but a yr before completing her bachelor’s level, she went in one extreme towards the additional. First her musical curiosity centered on playing piano and acoustic guitar and finally she found out her enthusiasm for the drumset. She remembers fondly that she got one particular small drumsets, that have been designed specifically for kids. As she grew old, Gerhard-García spent far more amount of time in her father’s studio room. He constructed the studio room in the cellar of their residence and each and every time her dad was performing recordings with drummers, she attempted to look at their drumsets. When she was 12 or 13, she began to play the drums officially, and her initial teacher had not been a good drummer, he was a keyboardist. After completing her level, Gerhard-García visited the School of Cologne to review musicology. There have been some interesting what to learn, however the additional time she spent there the greater she understood that it wasn’t just how she wished to go. Through the same period, she had been employed in the music business executing “Misa Criolla” using a big ensemble performing in the blended choir and playing percussion. Despite the fact that mixed up in business, she was thinking about finishing her research. In 1997, she got a major accident with her motorbike; from then on, her existence really changed. 3 or 4 ligaments in her make had been ruptured and she got to start right from the start. To perform actually the easiest motion was torture. After a stage of treatment and recovering her power, Gerhard-García broke off her college or university duties to review in the Drummers Institute in Düsseldorf, Germany. A couple of months later on, she visited NEW YORK to study in the Drummers Collective. In 1998, Gerhard-García released a Compact disc for the Canastero Music label, Eternal, which received rave evaluations, with eight paths of Latin jazz rooted music. Gerhard-García spent some time working with various performers and rings, including Rafael de Alcalá, Rodrigo Tobar, La Fiesta, Maipú, Alex Oriental Knowledge, Eli Goulart, Luizinho Vieira, and Sigo Lorfeo. Aside from being truly a drummer, she actually is also extremely mixed up in music creation/composing area, carrying out keyboard programming, images, and artwork, aswell as giving personal drum lessons. In 2000, she was making and documenting her first single album, as well as her own music group García Orchestra. Crossroads includes mainly jazz rock and roll music, along with components of Latin and funk music.