Short answers, pulled from the story.
Herb Alpert was born on the 31st of March 1935 in Boyle Heights, an Eastside neighborhood of Los Angeles, California. He was born into a family where music was the primary language and his father Louis played the mandolin while his mother Tillie taught violin.
The song that jump-started Herb Alpert's performing career was originally titled Twinkle Star but was renamed The Lonely Bull after a trip to a bullfight in Tijuana, Mexico. It became a Top 10 hit in the fall of 1962 and reached number 6 on the Billboard pop chart.
Herb Alpert's 1965 album Whipped Cream & Other Delights was the number one album of 1966 and was known for its notoriously racy cover featuring model Dolores Erickson. Alpert later confirmed in a 2025 chat that the cover featured shaving cream rather than whipped cream.
Herb Alpert's only number one single during the Tijuana Brass period was This Guy's in Love with You which was released as a single two days after the 1968 CBS Television special Beat of the Brass aired. The song reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in 1968.
Herb Alpert disbanded the Tijuana Brass and stopped performing in public in 1969 after a personal crisis where he declared the trumpet was his enemy. He later recorded the instrumental Rise which reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1979 after being used on the soap opera General Hospital.
Herb Alpert has received eight Grammy Awards, a Tony Award, the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the National Medal of Arts which he received from Barack Obama on the 20th of July 2013. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on the 27th of July 1977.