Herb Alpert

At 89 years old, Herb Alpert has this physical status:

Herb Alpert (born March 31, 1935) is an American jazz musician most associated with the group variously known as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass, Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, or TJB.

Alpert is also a recording industry executive, the "A" of A&M Records, a recording label he and business partner Jerry Moss founded and eventually sold to PolyGram.

Alpert also has created abstract expressionist paintings and sculpture over two decades, which are publicly displayed on occasion.

Alpert and his wife, Lani Hall, are substantial philanthropists through the operation of the Herb Alpert Foundation. Alpert's musical accomplishments include five No. 1 albums and 28 albums total on the Billboard Album chart, nine Grammy Awards, fourteen platinum albums, and fifteen gold albums.

Alpert has sold 72 million records worldwide.

Alpert is the only recording artist to hit No. 1 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop chart as both a vocalist ("This Guy's in Love with You", 1968) and an instrumentalist ("Rise", 1979).

Personal life

Alpert married Sharon Mae Lubin in 1956. They had two children, Dore (born 1960) and Eden (born 1966). The couple divorced in 1971. Two years later, Alpert married Lani Hall, once the lead singer of A&M group Brasil ’66. Alpert and Hall have a daughter, Aria, born in 1976. Hall and Alpert recorded a live album, Anything Goes, in 2009; a studio album, I Feel You, in 2011; and another studio album, Steppin' Out, in 2013. As Matt Collar wrote in AllMusic, "Ultimately, Steppin' Out represents not just the third album in a trilogy, but a loving creative partnership that, for Alpert and Hall, spans a lifetime."

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Early life and career

Herb Alpert was born and raised in the Boyle Heights section of Eastside Los Angeles, California, where Tillie's (both sons) and Louis Leib (or Louis Bentsion-Leib) Alpert's younger brother (or both sons) Alpert's younger brother (or younger brother) Alpert and his brother (or both brothers) were born and raised. His parents immigrated from Radomyshl (in present-day Ukraine) and Romania.

Alpert was born in the middle of a musician family. His father, who was primarily a tailor, was also a gifted mandolin player. His mother played violin at a young age, and his older brother, David, was a natural young drummer. At eight years old, Herb started playing trumpet.

He was a member of the USC Trojan Marching Band for two years while attending the University of Southern California in the 1950s. On Mt., he appeared in an uncredited capacity as "Drummer." In The Ten Commandments, Sinai means "doing slavery."

Alpert collaborated with Rob Weerts, another burgeoning lyricist, as a songwriter for Keen Records in 1957. During the next two years, Alpert's songs, including "Baby Talk" by Jan and Dean and Sam Cooke's "Wonderful World," became top 20 hits, including "Baby Talk" by Jan and Dean and "Wonderful World." He began his recording career as a vocalist at RCA Records in 1960 under the name Dore Alpert.

Post-Brass musical career

Alpert attempted to record a disco album of rearranged Brass hits in 1979, five years after his last chart hit with the Tijuana Brass. Later, Alpert said, "It just sounded awful to me." “I didn't want any part of it.” Alpert recorded other songs, including the instrumental "Rise," co-written by his cousin, Randy Badazz. Since being regularly used on the soap opera General Hospital, the song debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100. The song also became a hit in the United Kingdom, but in a sped-up version, due to British DJs' ignorance that the American 12" single was released at 33 rpm rather than 45 rpm.

Steppin' Out, Alpert's 2013 debut, earned a Grammy Award for Best Pop Instrumental Album.

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