Tico Torres

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American drummer

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nameTico Torres
imageTico Torres Bon Jovi at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival.jpg
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birth_nameHector Samuel Juan Torres
aliasTico, The Hitman
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birth_placeNew York City, U.S.
instrumentsDrums
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years_active1969–present
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Hector Samuel Juan "Tico" Torres (born October 7, 1953) is an American musician, best known as the drummer and one of the founding members of the rock band Bon Jovi. In 2018, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Bon Jovi.

Childhood

Hector Juan Samuel Torres was born on October 7, 1953, in New York City, and brought up in the Colonia section of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey. His parents, Emma and Héctor, emigrated from Cuba in 1948. Torres attended John F. Kennedy Memorial High School in Iselin.

Music career

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, Chuck Berry, Cher, Alice Cooper and Stevie Nicks, recording 26 albums with these artists. Torres was also one of the drummers auditioned by Kiss in 1980 after original drummer Peter Criss left the band.

Torres was the original drummer for the glam rock band T. Roth and Another Pretty Face and played on their 1980 album Face Facts.

Bon Jovi

Main article: Bon Jovi

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Torres met Alec John Such while playing with a band called Phantom's Opera and it was this friendship that led to him joining Bon Jovi. When Jon Bon Jovi, the lead singer of the band, approached Torres, he was put off by the fact that Jon was 9 years younger than he was. He said it was Jon's charismatic appearance and watching him perform that attracted him to join the band.

Known as "The Hitman," Torres is primarily a drummer and percussionist, but he sang 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".

Other work

Aside from his success as a drummer, Torres discovered another talent: painting. He has exhibited his art since 1994. The successful first show was at the Ambassador Galleries in Soho, New York. Torres is a self-taught painter, who paints expressive pictures which show scenes from everyday life and his life with the band.

His painting talent was shown in one of the three videos made for the single "Who Says You Can't Go Home."

Torres also owns a fashion line for babies called Rock Star Baby.

Personal life

Torres and his first wife divorced soon after the formation of Bon Jovi in 1983. In 1996, Torres married Czech-born model Eva Herzigová in Sea Bright, New Jersey. Their marriage ended two years later. Torres married Maria Alejandra in September 2001, his third marriage; they divorced in 2008. They have a son, born on January 9, 2004.

When the Bon Jovi What About Now tour reached Mexico on September 10, 2013, Torres experienced severe abdominal pains and was rushed to the hospital with appendicitis. About two weeks later, on September 22, 2013, he was hospitalized a second time for emergency gall bladder surgery. Rich Scannella filled in for him, and Torres returned to the tour in Fresno, California, on October 8, 2013, one day after his 60th birthday.

Torres is an avid golfer who frequently participates in the Alfred Dunhill Links Pro-Am in St. Andrews, UK, often playing in a foursome with fellow musician and good friend Huey Lewis.

Discography

Bon Jovi

Main article: Bon Jovi discography

;Studio albums

;Compilation albums

;Live albums

;Box sets

Richie Sambora

T. Roth and Another Pretty Face

References

References

  1. CrypticRock. (December 9, 2022). "Interview – Tico Torres of Bon Jovi".
  2. "T. Roth and Another Pretty Face music, videos, stats, and photos".
  3. Hartshorn, Tori. "Frankie & The Knockouts Return From The 80s With Newly Remastered COMPLETE COLLECTION".
  4. "Bon Jovi".
  5. (March 20, 1996). "Bon Jovi Drummer Beats Out Emotion On Canvas". The Palm Beach Post.
  6. "Face Facts". [[AllMusic]].
  7. (April 15, 2018). "Read Bon Jovi's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Speeches".
  8. "Tico Torres – BON JOVI: Presented by Walnut Street Gallery".
  9. (July 4, 2013). "Bon Jovi star keeps faith in brand".
  10. (September 22, 2013). "Tico Torres Hospitalized For Emergency Gall Bladder Surgery".
  11. (September 28, 2021). "2021 Alfred Dunhill Links Championship: Celebrities in the field".
  12. Flett, Amie. (September 2021). "Ronan Keating, Peter Jones and Huey Lewis among stars competing in Alfred Dunhill Links 20th anniversary".

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