SALVADOR LUCKNER, drummer and guitarist 

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The musician Salvador Luckner (b. March 7, 1949) from Port-au-Prince, Haiti is a jazz, blues guitarist and drummer in New York City plays around 40 years. He lives alone. He’s had 3 wives and 8 kids with those wives. He started learning music at the age of 7. The drum was his first musical instrument during his childhood and he also learned classical music.

 

He came to America at the age of 27. He started to learn guitar when he got it as a gift from his friend named Fritz Duverger. By this time, Fitzner Augustine teaches him Asian drums. Luis Wilkin, a Sound Engineer from Hunter College, teaches him the basics of music, its patterns, and many other things. At Jazz Mobil School, he learned jazz and blues on the guitar. Luckner has been in the band, Tioup Makanda. He also plays Voodoo music. Luckner spend 5 years, from 1993 to 1998, playing with the group. Afterwards, Luckner forms a band named “The York Spirit”. He has played Jazz and Blues on the guitar with the band for over a year.

 

Currently, he plays alone at different subway stations throughout New York City.