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BARRY VAN ZYL

Barry Van Zyl - Drummer

About Me

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Barry started playing drums as a 10 year old, as accompanyist to his piano playing dad!Since then, he graduated from the Musicians Institute of Technology, Hollywood, California with an honours in performance. He has lectured in the music departments of Cape Town University, Wits University JHB, and Pretoria Technikon.Barry joined the Johnny Clegg band in 1999. At the time he was touring in Europe with Oliver Mtikudzi's band "Mahube".He's been a member of Johnny 's band ever since, touring extensively in Europe, North America, Asia and the UK.The 1995/6 world tours started in France and ended in Australia/New Zealand and JHB. Highlights included: - guest performances with Peter Gabriel, Robert Plant and Brian May. - headlining the 46664 05 concerts in George, SA and Tromso, Norway. - opening the Montreal jazz fest to an audience of 125 000 people. - summerfest in Florida with Jimmy Buffet guesting. - double bill shows with Lenny Kravitz, the Neville Brothers and Taj Mahal.Barry records and tours with a variety of artists in between the Johnny Clegg Band schedule. Some recent credits include:- Arno Carsten's two solo albums (Sony SA) - The new Johnny Clegg album "One Life" - The soundtrack for the 2006 Oscar winning movie "Tsotsi" - The grammy nominated Ladysmith Black Mambazo album "No Frontiers" - The new "Black" album "Between Two Churches" - The new album by Theuns Jordaan , SA's biggest selling recording artist for 2006. - Tribal Beatz , a collabration project for ARC Records Europe - The new Johnny Clegg Band "Greatest Hits Live" DVD.He also records and tours with the Robin Auld Band.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 9/27/2006
Band Website: arcmusic.co.uk
Band Members: barry, Barry and BARRY
Influences: in drums : charlie watts , Ringo , barrimore barlow, omar hakim , efrain toro , horacio hernandez ,joey heredia, airto morreira, ralph humphrey , joe porcaro, anton fig, paco sery, joey baron, steve houghton, zakir hussein ,casey scheurell, Zigaboo Modeleste, taka numazawa and so on and on........ and of course hats off to the big 5 : Bonham , the GADD , Elvin , Jeff Porcaro and MR Keltner! in music and life : beatles , stones , led zep, robert plant , salif keita , keith jarret , herbie hancock,chick corea, bob dylan, neil young,the meters miles davis, prince, george clinton,the chilli peppers,bela bartok,stravinsky, anour brahem, caetano veloso,deepak chopra, andre brink,jm coetzee, pedro amaldovar, david lynch,gabriel g marquez, milan kundera, new york city, san fransisco,paris,london,vancouver,madrid,paul simon, johnny clegg, anton goosen, valiant swart, andy warhol ,giorgio armani, colin vearncombe, picasso ,matisse, johnny fourie,bruce cassidy,peter gabriel, david bowie, brian eno, daniel lanois,rick rubin,neil diamond,joni mitchel,duncan mackay,shawn phillips and so on and on and on and on.......
Sounds Like: .."My albums Goema Music and African Heartbeat are available to purchase from ARC Music."
Record Label: ARC Music
Type of Label: Indie

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Barry Van Zyl - An Introduction

Barry started playing drums as a 10 year old, as accompanyist to his piano playing dad! Since then, he graduated from the musicians institute of technology, Hollywood, California with an honours in pe...
Posted by BARRY VAN ZYL on Thu, 28 Sep 2006 12:31:00 PST