Alex Acuña

Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1944-12-12

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

1,317

Total plays

5,941

Alejandro Neciosup Acuña aka Alex Acuña (born December 12, 1944) is a Peruvian Afro-Cuban jazz drummer and percussionist. Born in Pativilca, Peru, Acuña played in local bands from the age of ten, and moved to Lima as a teenager. At the age of eighteen he joined the band of Perez Prado, and in 1967 he moved to Puerto Rico. In 1974 Acuña moved to Las Vegas, working with artists such as Elvis Presley and Diana Ross, and the following year he joined the jazz-fusion group Weather Report, appearing o

via Last.fm · Alex Acuña

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

   · 2021 · cited 43,565x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,474x

3. ImageNet classification with deep convolutional neural networks

   · 2017 · cited 32,021x

4. Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning

   · 2015 · cited 23,755x

5. Welcome to the Tidyverse

   · 2019 · cited 20,450x

via Crossref · CC0