| Herb Alpert  AKA Herbert Alpert
Born: 31-Mar-1935
Birthplace: Los Angeles, CA
Gender: Male
Religion: Jewish
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Musician, Business
Party Affiliation: Democratic Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Tijuana Brass and the "A" in A&M Records Military service: US Army Herb Alpert was a trumpeter during his tenure in the army, but originally pursued acting as a career. Apparently, he can be seen playing drums for Moses in the film The Ten Commandments. In 1962 he founded A&M records with Jerry Moss. Concurrent with starting the label, Alpert began releasing records as bandleader of Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, the first of which was The Lonely Bull. This and subsequent records were immensely popular, making Alpert's band the highest-selling instrumental act in history. The 1965 release Whipped Cream and Other Delights, bearing the photograph of a sexy Hispanic woman wearing nothing but a giant mound of dairy product, has also gained its place in history as the most-parodied album cover -- other versions replacing the cream with spaghetti and the sexy model with dumpy men or elderly women. A&M was sold to Polygram in 1989, and the founders stayed with the label until 1993. In 1999, A&M was eaten by Universal Music. Alpert has continued in his other pursuits as a painter, theater producer, and operates the Herb Alpert Foundation, a proponent of arts in education.
Father: Louis Alpert
Mother: Tillie Goldberg
Wife: Sharon Mae Lubin (m. 1956, div., two children)
Wife: Lani Hall (Brasil '66 singer, m. 1973, one daughter)
High School: Fairfax High School, Los Angeles, CA
University: University of Southern California (briefly)
A&M Records Cofounder (1962)
Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
Effective Government Committee
Hillary Clinton for President
Grammy Record of the Year, A Taste of Honey 1966
Grammy Best Instrumental Performance 1966
Grammy Best Instrumental Arrangement 1966
Grammy Best Engineered Recording 1967
Grammy Best Instrumental Performance, What Now My Love 1967
Grammy Best Instrumental Arrangement 1967
Grammy Best Pop Instrumental Performance, Rise 1980
Grammy Lifetime Achievement, with Jerry Moss 1997
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Jerry Moss 2006
Russian Ancestry Paternal
Jewish Ancestry Paternal
Hungarian Ancestry Maternal
Official Website:
http://www.herbalpert.com/
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