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 S. Fletcher Geoffrey S. Fletcher Geoffrey Shawn Fletcher (born October 4, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film director, and adjunct film professor at Columbia University and New York University's Tisch School of the Arts in New York City, New York. Fletcher is the screenwriter of "Precious" and received an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on March 7, 2010. He is the first African American to receive an Academy Award for writing. In September 2010, Fletcher began shooting "Violet & Daisy" in New York City based on his original script as his directorial debut.