Jeffrey

Jeffrey Zuhdy is a singer and guitarist and a certified teacher in both disciplines.

Music has always played a big role in Jeffrey’s life. He starts taking guitar lessons at the age of 10, but soon it is clear that Jeffrey has more talents when it comes to music. He takes trumpet and piano lessons, plays in a brass band and takes part in school musicals in which he stands out as a promising singing talent and performer.

He starts writing his first songs for the schoolband and gets his inspiration from pop and symfonic rock bands like Queen, Genesis, Supertramp , but also from soul and funk artists like Earth Wind & Fire and Stevie Wonder.

In 1991 Jeffrey graduates from the conservatory in Hilversum (NL), where he was taught by great guitarists like Maarten van de Grinten, Wim Overgaauw and Peter Tiehuis.

After graduating, Jeffrey also decides to take singing classes with George Webb and Nicolas Mansfield to develop himself even more as a singer.

In the Dutch a capella group Pitch Control , Jeffrey sings jazz to pop and for this group he makes his first a capella arrangement of the song Alphabeth Street from Prince.

After being part of the Dutch rockband DaCosta , which was inspired by the music of Dutch rock hero Herman Brood, Jeffrey is offered a new challenge in the a capella pop scene: Montezuma’s Revenge. With this group Jeffrey tours for over 7 years, playing theaters in Holland, Germany, Switserland and Austria with an evening filling show, treating the audience to some amazing vocal highlights. A lot of the arrangements of the numbers in these shows are in fact Jeffrey’s work. And with the group he comes in third place in the 2001 Dutch national (Eurovision) Songcontest .

However, being just a singer is not enough for Jeffrey and he decides to pick up his guitar again. And so, after a succesful career in the a capella scene, in 2002 it is back to the pop and rock scene!

At the moment Jeffrey plays in several bands, both as singer and guitarist and he works hard on writing his own songs. Besides this Jeffrey also works on vocal projects for movies, commercials and ringtones.

And of course Jeffrey is teaching a lot: singing classes in his own studio at home, as well as at the music school de Plantage in Tiel (NL) and he has given workshops in harmony vocals at the Music Academy (AVLM , Lelystad, NL). In his classes he uses techniques from the EVTS and CVT singing methods. Jeffrey is also available for guitar lessons, bandcoaching and workshops for choirs or at schools, focussing on singing techniques and stage performance.