Oscar Hernández (musician) Oscar Hernández (musician) Oscar Hernández (born March 22, 1954) is an American pianist, arranger and producer of Puerto Rican descent. Hernández's family moved to the United States from Puerto Rico in the 1940s, in search of a better way of life. They settled down in the South Bronx, a ghetto, which is a section that is heavily populated by latinos in New York where Hernández was born. Hernández who was the youngest of eleven siblings, received his primary and secondary education in the city's public school system. As a child he was exposed to the music of Tito Puente, Tito
Geoffrey Zakarian Geoffrey Zakarian Geoffrey Zakarian (born July 25, 1959) is an American chef, restaurateur, television personality and author. He is the executive chef of several restaurants in New York City, Atlantic City and Miami. He is featured on several television programs on the Food Network, including "Chopped" and in 2011, "The Next Iron Chef", where he won the right to join "Iron Chef America". Zakarian was born 1959 in Worcester, Massachusetts, to an Armenian-American father, musician George Zakarian, and a Polish-American mother, Viola ("née" Hekowicz). He has a sister, Virginia, and brother, George. He graduated from Burncoat High School in 1977.