Biography
Having completed his training at the Puerto Rican Conservatory of Music and at Boston’s Berklee College of Music, William Cepeda first concentrated on Latin percussion rooted in Afro-Caribbean traditions. He subsequently took up the trombone and, in 1989, became a member of Dizzy Gillespie’s United Nation Orchestra. After earning additional credentials in arranging and composition, he appeared on releases by Paquito D'Rivera, Yolandita Monge, Marc Anthony, and Tito Nieves, and he shared stages with Eddie Palmieri, Celia Cruz, Tito Puente, and other leading Latin performers. In 1998 he formed his own ensemble and introduced it on the Latin jazz-inflected My Roots and Beyond; the group later issued Bombazo and 2001’s Branching Out.
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