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#85- TONY HERNANDO 
 Tony
Hernando is a Spanish guitar player. He was born and grew up in Salamanca,
Spain. His first contact with music was at the Superior
Conservatory of music in his hometown
when he was 9 years old, studying music, theory, singing and classical
guitar for about 8 years. After a few years playing electric guitar selftaughing
through songs from Iron Maiden,Ozzy, Satriani, Yngwie, etc,...he starts
teaching privately while also attends IMT school in Madrid, where he
meets some great fusion and jazz teachers who introduce him to that genre
of music. After two years, he finally "goes Hollywood" for
studying at Musicians Institute's G.I.T., where Brett Garsed, Scott Henderson,
Dan Gilbert, Paul Hanson were his teachers among others.
“But it was the fact that when I was not attending the school,
I spent all the time taking private lessons or assisting to seminars
and clinics with some of the greatest musicians, like Mike Stern, Brett
Garsed, Scott Henderson, Derek Sherinian, Tony Macalpine, Frank Gambale,...and
most important, my experience as private student of Joey Tafolla, the key
for my development as professional guitarist- I used to go to his place
every weekend; the lessons were great and pretty hard, and we became good
friends.
When I came back to Spain was very hard deciding what to do, I had to
assimilate all I learnt in Los Angeles and prepare myself for becoming
a competitive musician, teacher and producer”.
 Tony started teaching guitar lessons at different schools and privately,
having enormous sucess and writing guitar articles and columns for various
magazines, while
he also started as endorser for music companies such Ibanez and Line
6. He also had the chance of studying personally with Andy Timmons and
John Petrucci.
In 2000 Tony produces his first solo album entitled “High”,
and lot of clinic shows for Ibanez and Line6 and seminars follow.
In 2001 starts writing the music for the 2nd album ,which was not recorded
until 2002 waiting for the extraoridinare and Tony's favorite drummer
Mike Terrana.Very special guests like Andy Timmons and keyboard player
Vitalij Kuprij are also playing in the album, released by Lion Music
and entitled “The shades of truth”.
More clinics and live performances with his own band and other parallel
projects keep Tony busy during most part of 2003, ending up with the GuitarFest
tour with Andy Timmons and Freak Kitchen and playing at JemFest UK in
London on October.
During most part of 2004 Tony is producing the new album, focusing specially
in good, big compositions and sound quality.
Right before the release of “III”,the second edition of Tony´s
GuitarFest takes place in November 2004, sharing the bill with longtime
friend, brother and inspiration- William Stravato and world class guitarist
Richie Kotzen.
Tony´s 3rd solo album entitled “III”, is released in
the begining of 2005 by Lion Music, and features Mike Terrana on drums
again. An incredible step further in terms of composition and production, “III” is
Tony's definitive album. Soon is getting reviews as "best guitar
album of the year".
Official promo tour for "III", with no other than Mike Terrana on drums takes places during two different tours in 2005, first in May
with Freak Kitchen as special guests and second as part of another GuitarFest
edition with Andy Timmons Band.
From Tony Hernando Website
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