Giovanni Hidalgo and Russ Miller - Two Become One (CD)

The legendary percussionist Giovanni Hidalgo produces his first offering from RMI Records. We’ve launched an incredible collaboration between Giovanni and Russ Miller entitled, “Two Become One”. Gio’s career started at the age of 12 and quickly accelerated to the top of his field, by the age of 19 playing with Eddie Palmieri. After that, nothing short of a historical career has ensued. Hundreds of albums, tours and movies with everyone from Dizzy Gillespie to Gloria Estefan and even residing as a member of Mick Hart’s “Planet Drum”. This has led Gio to being revered as one of the leading “Congueros” in history. This is Gio’s 6th solo album and his first since 1999 and a series of serious health issues that almost sidelined his playing career. Russ Miller has been one of the most internationally recognizable names in drumming and music, for the past two decades.  As a recording artist, he has played on over five-hundred albums, selling more than 30 million copies.  Russ’ movie credits number over 150+ and have earned more than a Two Billion dollars at the box office. This is Russ’ 7th release on R.M.I. Records and his first with Giovanni as a collaboration. This collaboration between these two incredible artists contains 12 original compositions and two, newly arranged Pop vocal standards. This includes the single release of an amazing Brazilian arrangement of the Beatles classic, “Things We Said Today”, which pocketed to #39 on TOP40 Radio. Recorded in the Legendary Studio A at Criteria Recording in Miami and engineered by world class tracking and mix engineer Brad Haehnel, this entire project was captured in HD 32/96khz and mixed in 5.1 DTS digital surround. More information is available at www.rmirecords.net.