Gino began playing drums at just five years old in Ecuador. He studied at music conservatories in Havana, Cuba, where he discovered his passion for Cuban jazz. He worked as a solo musician in New York for several years before settling in Charleston, South Carolina with his family in 2010. Gino has earned several Jazz Artist of the Year awards, collaborated with many renowned international artists, and has taught at the Berklee College of Music. Gino is an Afro-Cuban jazz percussionist, singer and leader of his band the Cuban Cowboys, a tribute to African-American music that influenced a change in modern Cuban music in the 1970s.
Sponsored by Pearl Drums, he has appeared in concert and recorded with a long list of international artists, many of which can be heard on his latest CD, Ya Llegue. In Charleston he also performs with the Charleston Jazz Orchestra and a number of other local groups.
