DRUMMER & PERCUSSIONIST EXTRAORDINARE...!! ;0)
Drum Kit
Bodhran
Frame Drums
Middle Eastern Percussion incl:
Riq, Def, Tar, Bendir, Darabouka (or Egyptian Tabla if ya fussy!), Doumbek and Zagats/Zills
Cajon/Cajonito
Congas/Latin percussion
BUT ALSO... pots, pans and old tin cans, toys, metal posts, washboards, boxes, gongs, and any number of other slappy things and frame drums I can shake my sticks at...
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How I got here... brought up on Led Zeppelin, The Cream and Hendrix.. as a kid, the recorder and piano lessons just didn’t do it for me; especially having 2 accomplished Jazz drummers as my great-Grandfather and great Uncle.
I started playing Drum Kit at 11 and later went on to study Classical Percussion and 1930's/40's Big Band.
I got into the BRIT school for Performing Arts (London, UK) at 14, and also began to learn Afro-Cuban percussion with Jorge Santo and Enrique Pla from Havana's premier band 'IREKERE'.
Later, I was in the running for the UK's 'Young Percussionist of the Year Awards' at 17 - but in those days I was too young to compete fully :0(
I then went to Paul McCartneys Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts (LIPA) and did a BA Hons degree in Music. I also went to Cuba and carried on my studies with Afro-Cuban music & history; and toured Europe with a 15 piece show band.
When I left LIPA, I started work as a Percussionist for several different Pop/Dance acts and also sessioning for SONY UK.
Then, being the daughter of a Bellydancer I decided to look more closely at the rhythms I’d learnt to dance to as a kid. I went to study with world renowned Egyptian percussionist HOSSAM RAMZY (Peter Gabriel, Page and Plant); later to earn the priviledge of playing and working for him. I now also work for Miles Copeland and his Bellydance Superstars!
These days I play all kinds of weird and wonderful Percussion & Drum Kit for talented people...