Clic HERE to read Healer Selecta's Interview with David Swindells in TIME OUT LONDON MAGAZINE
"HEALER SELECTA HAS MADE LONDON SWING AGAIN"Will Hodgkinson (MOJO Magazine England)HEALER SELECTA, is Mister RAISON D'ETRE, a Guitarman, Disc Jockey, Composer, Record Producer, Cinema Music Surpervisor, Arranger, Records collector, Music Consultant, Promoter- Show Producer. Record Dealer, Talent spoter/booker... Yvan started young. At the age of 10 his father, cross that Yvan was listening to music rather than doing his schoolwork, broke all his records. Such a traumatic experience tightened his resolve to dedicate his life to them. A year later he was running his own radio show in his home town, digging the rebellious sounds of Gene Vincent and Bo Diddley and learning to play guitar over 45s by Link Wray, Magic Sam and Dick Dale. By 18 he was putting on parties in the catacombs of Limoges, France, squaring up to the local police and grooving to whatever hidden gems he dug out of the record boxes of depot vents across France. By 19 Yvan was running Rockabilly-Psychobilly- Blues- Soul -Garage Punk & Surf shows at Limoges "bijou" CCM John Lennon (Gene Vincents Blue Caps, All Crypt records artists, Rudy Tutti Grayzell and many other Rockabilly legends) He was also the first one to bring ROBERT BELFOUR the legendary Memphis Bluesman in Europe back in 1994. Yvan moves to England in the mid 90's, It was at London's legendary late 90s rocknroll-Burlesque night The Frat Shack at the 333 in Shoreditch and The Las Vegas Grind Festival in Vegas, where Yvan was a resident DJ when he discovered the power that being free can have. Having played guitar in rock'n'roll bands, The Blue Devils , Showman & The Thunderous Staccatos and The Sidekick , Yvan was firmly entrenched in the live rocking scene, but his musical tastes had always been broad. So he spun garage rock back to back with soul, rocksteady, afrobeat, samba and rhythm & blues, Manbo, Surf, etc... The purist scenesters were confused but the music lovers went wild. The way forward was clear from then on.HEALER SELECTA HAS MADE LONDON SWING AGAIN ! For the last five years he and his music-loving beau Crystal have put on the RAISON D'ETRE parties and Reason2b International Music & Art Lovers Collective, where Londons international community of artists and musicians have got together to celebrate cosmopolitanism, humanism, and musicism.Since 2006, the official "Godmother" of Healer Selecta's parties and Raison D'Etre Collective is SPANKY WILSON , the 60's Soul Diva Queen legend and the "Godfather" is BO DIDDLEY , the greatest and most influential Rock & Roll king of all time.
"MUSIC IS NOT A PRODUCT, IT IS A WAY TO LIVE, IT IS OUR SCHOOL, OUR STREET, OUR CULTURE, OUR HISTORY, OUR RELIGION, OUR FAMILY, OUR LIFE" xxx Healer Selecta.
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