Jean Pierre Magnet
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Jean Pierre Magnet Vargas Prada |
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November 9, 1949 Lima, Peru |
| Genres | Rock, jazz, jazz fusion, Peruvian folk |
| Occupation(s) | Saxophonist, music producer, director |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Associated acts | Traffic Sound, PeruJazz, Wayruro, Gran Banda, Serenata de los Andes |
| Website | www |
Jean Pierre Magnet Vargas Prada (born in Lima, Peru on September 11, 1949) is a saxophonist, composer, music producer and director.
He is the oldest of three, son of French Basque father and Peruvian mother.Jean Pierre started his musical career since early age, while living and working with his father at Country Club Hotel of Lima, Peru. At 10 years old, Jean Pierre revealed his dream to become a saxophonist to his father who immediately gave him his first saxophone.
During his adolescence, Jean Pierre joined Traffic Sound, a Peruvian rock bands in the late 1960s. At the beginning, the band recorded covers of Jimi Hendrix, The Rascals, Animals and Iron Butterfly, main influencers of the band and whose singles were included in their first LP in 1970. Traffic Sound recorded four productions: A Bailar Go Go, Virgin, Traffic Sound and Lux; being Meshkalina the greatest hit between the 1970s and 1980s.
In 1972, Traffic Sound splits up and soon after, Jean Pierre decides to get musical education.
At age 20, Jean Pierre began his studies of musical theory and flute at the National Conservatory of Buenos Aires in Argentina, followed by jazz at the University of Southern Mississippi (U.S.A.). Afterwards, he headed to San Francisco where undertook his first gigs as street musician striving to accomplish his greatest dream, which was to study at Berklee School of Music of Boston.
Back in Peru Jean Pierre organized five major Jazz Festivals, featuring Arturo Sandoval, Ray Barreto, Irakere, Paquito de Rivera and Alex Acuña for the first time in Lima, Peru. As a consequence, Jean Pierre is invited to Satchmo's partnership, one of the most important jazz clubs of Peru. There he could nurture even more his musical knowledge and experience, which led him to a new adventure in his career: Wayruro, the most influential band of Andean music of the time. Through this project, Jean Pierre endeavored to introduce a new approach towards Andean music, thus further developing his musical style under an open framework that allowed him to interact with other world genres and trends.
In 1984 he established PeruJazz, quartet formed by Manongo Mujica, Enrique Luna and Julio “Chocolate” Algendones.
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