Billy Cobham is a talented and respected fusion drummer, and he was born in Panama.
What is wrong with the sentence?
a. The ideas in the independent clauses are not coordinate.
b. A semicolon should precede the coordinate conjunction.
c. “Talented and respected” is not parallel.
d. It uses an incorrect conjunctive adverb.

Explanation: Option b is incorrect because the coordinating conjunction (the second and) takes the role of the semicolon in this sentence, i.e., you can have either, but not both. "Talented and respected" is a valid parallel (participial adjective + participial adjective), so option c is discarded, while option d is false because there are no conjunctive adverbs in the sentence. The real problem is the awkward coordination between "is talented and respected" and "was born in Panama"; those two elements are not related enough to coordinate them as such.