Herb Alpert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Herb Alpert

American musician

Date of Birth: 31-Mar-1935

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Profession: actor, entrepreneur, conductor, singer, record producer, songwriter, bandleader, trumpeter, jazz musician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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).