About Me
Osama Afifi has been part of the West Coast music scene since 1985 . For several years he has been the bassist for the B Sharp Jazz Quartet. The Quartet toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe. They performed at the North Sea, Istanbul, Nice, Brecon, Umbria, and Monterey Jazz Festivals, just to name a few. Osama has recorded and performed live with many other artists, including U.S. and Canadian tours with Yanni, Vanessa Paradis, John Densmore's Tribal Jazz and VH1's show "Storytellers" with The Doors. He has also worked with Kurt Elling, Nnenna Freelon, the Fifth Dimension, Mindi Abair, Jeff Kashiwa, The Cadillacs, Gary Herbig, Debbie Boone, Kei Akagi, Eric Reed, Hugo Jojo, and trumpeter Tony Guerrero. Since moving to the Northwest he has worked with The Kareem Kandi Band, Darren Motamedy, David Keys, Hook Me Up, Gail Pettis, Michael Powers and many others. He also continues to record numerous jingles and TV shows, such as Wild Bills Adventure, Battledome, the new Newlywed Game, Toyota, BET, Lizzie MacGuire, Infiniti, Barbie, Hyundai and Tropicana. His education included studies at the Dick Grove School of Music. He also studied with Jeff Berlin and Gary Willis. He has taught at the Los Angeles Music Academy in Pasadena, California and is currenty the bass instructor at Ted Brown Music in Tacoma,Wa.
