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South Florida guitarist Dan Warner wasn’t Latin. But when Latin music superstars like Julio Iglesias, Juanes, Marc Anthony, Ricky Martin and Sebastian Yatra needed a musician with groove — one who was in the pocket in music-speak — there was one fixture on stage with them and in the studio.
Hollywood, Florida-born Daniel Lawrence Warner.
Warner, a Grammy and four-time Latin Grammy award winner who lived in Plantation, died suddenly Wednesday of an apparent heart attack at age 49, according to friends and reports, including USA Today and from Leila Cobo, Billboard magazine’s executive director for content and programming of Latin music.
He died right after doing what he loved to do: playing music.
According to a Facebook post from his friend, Coconut Creek musician Kilmo Doome, the two had just finished jamming in a set at Fat Cats in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday.
Warner loved playing at the venue after sessions in studios, like North Miami’s Criteria. That’s where he recorded guitar tracks for Julio Iglesias’ 1995 album, “La Carretera,” and, most recently, Marc Anthony’s May release, “Opus.”
“I was privileged to jam with one of the world’s great guitar players last night,” Doome wrote on Thursday afternoon. “We had just finished playing, and were standing at the bar talking about fat groove. His last words were, ‘groove is everything’ before he fell over on me.” When Gibb recorded his 2016 solo album, “In the Now,” at Criteria and performed concerts in support of the project, including their last gig together — Glastonbury in June 2017 — he relied on Warner, along with his son Stephen Gibb, to lay down updated licks on Bee Gees’ “Saturday Night Fever” era classics like “Stayin’ Alive,” “Jive Talkin’” and “Tragedy.”
Arguably, the hardest rocking song in Gibb’s vast catalog, “Blowin’ a Fuse,” from “In the Now,” gets its muscle from the twin guitar and surf riff grooves played by Warner and the younger Gibb.
“We are all devastated by the loss of Dan Warner,” Barry Gibb said on Facebook. “The gentle giant, the brilliant musician, and my friend. I’d like to join his wife, his family, and our gang in paying my respects. Dan wasn’t one of the best, he really was the best! We love you Dan!”
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