Corea was born ( June 12, 1941) in Chelsea, Massachusetts. He is of Sicilian and Spanish descent. Armando's father, a jazz trumpet player who had led a Dixieland band in the Boston area in the 1930 s and 1940 s, introduced him to the piano at the age of four. Armando Anthony «Chick» Corea is an American jazz pianist , virtuoso keyboardist , and composer. Corea started his professional career in the 1960s playing with trumpeter Blue Mitchell and Latin greats such as Herbie Mann, Willie Bobo and Mongo Santamaría . As a member of «Miles Davis» band in the 1960 s, he participated in the birth of the electric jazz fusion movement. Corea continued to pursue other collaborations and to explore various musical styles throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Recent years have also seen Corea's rising interest in contemporary classical music. He composed his first piano concerto.

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