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Prieto, Dafnis

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Personal name headingPrieto, Dafnis
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See alsoFounded corporate body of person: Dafnis Prieto Big Band
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Associated countryCuba United States
LocatedNew York (N.Y.)
Birth date1974-07-31
Place of birthSanta Clara (Villa Clara, Cuba)
Field of activityMusic Jazz
AffiliationNew York University
University of Miami. Frost School of Music
Profession or occupationComposers Drummers (Musicians) Jazz musicians College teachers Sound recording executives and producers
Found inThreadgill, H. Everybody's mouth's a book [SR] p2001: insert (Dafnis Prieto, drums)
Wikipedia, November 1, 2016 (Dafnis Prieto; born July 31, 1974, Santa Clara, Villa Clara Province, Cuba; Cuban-American bandleader, composer, drummer and educator; since 2005, he has been a member of the music faculty at New York University in New York City, New York; currently teaches at the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida; a resident of New York City since 1999; founder of the independent record company Dafnison Music)
Dafnison Music WWW site, November 1, 2016: Biography (Dafnis Prieto; drummer, composer, educator from Cuba; moved to New York City in 1999; recipient of the 2011 MacArthur Fellowship Award; a faculty member of Jazz studies at NYU from 2005 to 2014, and in 2015 became a faculty member of Frost School of Music at UM (University of Miami))
   <https://dafnisonmusic.com/biography/>
DownBeat Reviews website, May 28, 2019: Back To The Sunset review page (Dafnis Prieto Big Band, a project we started hearing about early in 2017, when Prieto began a fund-raising campaign to support organizing, rehearsing and recording this 17-piece, heroic big band)
   <http://downbeat.com/reviews/detail/back-to-the-sunset>