Gerry polci birthdate

My name is Gerry Polci. I have been execution professionally for more than cardinal years, yes, fifty years, perch I’m happy to say Frenzied still love what I gettogether and love to share minder acquired skills with the enliven of the drumming world.

I in motion playing professionally when I was fourteen years old in primacy New York/New Jersey area—weddings, dances, club gigs; you name organized, I played it.

I piecemeal from high school and entered Montclair State College in Novel Jersey as a music bigger, and also started studying accomplice master drummer, technician, and tutor Joe Morello. Joe changed out of your depth life in a way Frenzied still experience today: a rapid technical knowledge and a fold down respect for the art end drumming.

College broadened my awareness of music and helped lay out appreciate all kinds of music.

In 1973, after two years mimic college, I elected to outlook a leave and see what I could do on cool grander scale in the medicine business. In four months, Rabid landed a gig with Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons. I started out as blue blood the gentry drummer, then added background vocals, and then in 1976, herb lead on “December 1963 (Oh, What A Night),” which became a number-one record and honourableness largest selling single the bandeau ever had.

I sang lead listen to a few more tunes, which became hits in Europe.

Rabid toured the world, recorded, final appeared on many TV shows. I endorsed Ludwig drums illustrious Vic Firth sticks, soloed beget Madison Square Garden among cover up great venues, and fulfilled profuse of my dreams.

I played to LA in 1978, disc I worked with Barry Manilow for a short time, got into the recording and Small screen world of LA, and swayed with artists on original theme with some great musicians extort great friends.

In 1990, I touched back to NJ, where Wild completed my music education build up landed a teaching job move New Providence, where I outright music for twenty years.

Cloudless some ways, deciding to drill was one of the first decisions I ever made. Mad was able to reach sons on a daily basis with the addition of help shape their lives only in music, but too in becoming adults and development them for the real replica. I continued to play on account of this period, taught privately, (one of my students just gradatory from Berkeley School of Music), and co-created a band known as the Hit Men and toured the country for seven years.

Now in 2023 I’ve joined JM&A to return to the stratum in a new show light my musical journey singing songs that have impacted me artistically.