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Sean

About Me


Sean Winchester was born and raised in Newburry Park, California, where he discovered drums at the age of 15 and started his first band Delve. He soon after began taking lessons with drummer legend Zoro (Lenny Kravitz, Bobby Brown, and Vanessa Paradis.).At the age of 18 Sean left California to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts and was the recipient of Berklee College of Music's BEST Scholarship award. At Berklee Sean studied professional music and drums with Dave Dicenso (Duran Duran) and Grammy award-winning drummer Mark Walker. During his time at Berklee, he performed and recorded with female artist Jeannine Hebb, jazz pianist Ayako Higuchi, rock band Plaid Daddy and many others.After Sean's time at Berklee he came back to Los Angeles to begin his first U.S. tour with rock band Fermata and recording tracks for their EP "Vessel." After completing three U.S. tours with Fermata Sean began playing with model/actess Nina Bergman in the band Dead Rose Beauty, touring with bands such as Meatloaf and the Scorpions. While playing with DRB, Sean started playing with High Valley Entertainment reggae band Cipes and The People, touring the U.S. Recently Sean had produced tracks on the album "Parodies Nuts!" for Comedian Eric Schwartz aka Smooth-E.Currently Sean can be found playing with punk princess The Fabulous Miss Windy, Freqeuncy 5, and River of Suns.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 8/30/2005
Band Website: wix.com/seanrwinchester/seanwinchester
Influences: My Parents
Foreign Exchange
Josh Freese
Black Star
Bjork
Common
D'Angelo
Erykah Badu
Esthero
Jay Dee
Jill Scott
John Coltrane
Killswitch Engage
Photek
Queens of the stone age
Square Pusher
Wayne Shorter

Sounds Like:
Record Label: Unknown Indie
Type of Label: Major

My Blog

Check out this video: Suburbia

Check out this video: Suburbia
Posted by on Thu, 18 Dec 2008 00:41:00 GMT

3RD U.S. TOUR!!! WHOOPIEEEEEEE!!!

Well I'm off yet again on another adventure with my homies in FERMATA so wish me luck everybody! It's a whopping 2 months this time!!! I love all my friends!!!Sean WinchesterS.R.W.
Posted by on Thu, 25 Jan 2007 15:06:00 GMT

2ND OFFICIAL US TOUR STARTS TOMORROW!!!!!

If anybody has anything they wanna tell me before I leave on tour, speak now.. or e-mail me while I'm on tour... I'll be back in a month. Wish me luck or somethin. Check the dates and see if you can m...
Posted by on Thu, 21 Sep 2006 08:14:00 GMT

MY FIRST MUSIC VIDEO!!!

Fermata just shot it's first music video with the legendary Shane Drake. He has worked with bands such as: Fall Out Boy Armor For Sleep Hawthorne Heights MewithoutYou Subseven Brandtson Kane Hod...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Mar 2006 14:05:00 GMT

Career Update

     I have decided to join the good people @ Fermata . We have an EP coming out in late March and we start touring in the beginning of April. We should also be doing the Warp...
Posted by on Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:02:00 GMT

Last show in boston til god knows when.

I'll be playin at the all asia bar in cambridge with some of my favorite musicians including Jeannine Hebb, Yujin Amano, Rozhan, and Edward Lee. It's gonna be a night of laid back grooves and hot R&B ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:37:00 GMT

I'm on Japanese Radio!!!

Last week was my world wide radio debut. I recorded a latin tune with a woman named Kauru Mori called Summer Thunder. It got on the japanese radio station for only a week but it got rave reviews from ...
Posted by on Sun, 18 Dec 2005 10:18:00 GMT

Check out My Girlfriend

She's a Belly Dancer and she's got a video online now!!! turbotabla.com/dance She's hot and I'm Lucky
Posted by on Wed, 26 Oct 2005 20:25:00 GMT

CROSS DA FINGERS

:anxious: WellI just auditioned for the Me'Shell N'degeochello Ensemble so lets hope for the best... There were so many killin musiciaans I am a bit doubtful but wishful thinking keeps me goin... ...
Posted by on Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:09:00 GMT

Very Nice

I'm so glad people are checking out my music on this thing. I hope more people will check it out. I just gotta get people to give me more feedback so GIMME SOME FEEDBACK SO I KNOW WHAT OTHER...
Posted by on Wed, 07 Sep 2005 20:24:00 GMT