Given the question: Pick one category for the following text. The options are - company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work. Coke Escovedo -  Coke Escovedo (born Joseph Thomas Escovedo April 30 1941 in Los Angeles California) was an American percussionist. Coke grew up in the East Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area and developed an early interest in jazz and Latin music through exposure gained from his father an aspiring big band singer and eventually gravitated to drums and Latin percussion.
The answer is:
Artist