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Tico Torres
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American drummer
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Tico Torres, born Héctor Samuel Juan Torres on October 7, 1953, in Manhattan, is an American musician and drummer. He is a member of the rock music group Bon Jovi, where he plays the drum kit. His professional career began in 1969, and he speaks English.
In addition to his musical work, Torres is a painter. He is married to Eva Herzigová. His birth name includes the given names Samuel and Juan, with the family name Torres. He holds citizenship in the United States.
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Film & TV
Acting · New York, USA
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres (born October 7, 1953) is an American drummer and percussionist for Bon Jovi. He also has taken lead vocals on a song on the box set 100,000,000 Bon Jovi Fans Can't Be Wrong, as well as backing vocals on a couple of the early Bon Jovi tracks, notably "Born to Be My Baby" and "Love for Sale". Description above from the…
Known for
- Thank You, Goodnight - The Bon Jovi Story — Self2024
- Bon Jovi: Encore Nights Drive-In2021
- On A Night Like This - Bon Jovi 2020 — Self - Drums2020
- Twenty Eighteen Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony — Self [Bon Jovi]2018
- Bon Jovi: Rock in Rio 2017 — Self - Drums2017
- Bon Jovi - An Intimate Tour — Self - Drums2016
- Late Night with Seth Meyers — Self - Musical Guest2014
- Bon Jovi | Because We Can Tour - Live From Cleveland — Self2013
- Bon Jovi: Rock In Rio 2013 — Self - Drums2013
- Bon Jovi | Inside Out — Self - Drums2012
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1953
Member of
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 338
- Total plays
- 1,530
Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres (born October 7, 1953) is an American drummer and percussionist of Bon Jovi. Torres was a jazz fan as a youth and studied music with Joe Morello. In 1969, he played drums for the psychedelic rock band Six Feet Under. Before joining Bon Jovi in 1983, Torres had already played live with Joe Cerisano's R-Band aka Silver Condor in the New Jersey Rock circuit, and in the studio with Franke and the Knockouts, Pat Benatar <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Tico+Torres">
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
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· 2016 · cited 11,699x
- GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral
· 2017 · cited 8,256x
- Inferring tumour purity and stromal and immune cell admixture from expression data
· 2013 · cited 7,919x
- <i>Gaia</i> Data Release 2
· 2018 · cited 7,446x
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Juan
- Family name
- Torres
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Manhattan
- Spouse
- Eva Herzigová
- Occupation
- painter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Instrument
- drum kit
- Official website
- www.bonjovi.com
- Image
- Tico Torres Bon Jovi at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg
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- member of
- Bon Jovi
- date of birth
- 1953-10-07
- Commons category
- Tico Torres
- birth name
- Héctor Samuel Juan Torres
- start of work period
- 1969-00-00
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