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So WAX

Vocal Soul

About Me

SO WAX has just produced a record of seven tracks ! Get it direct from us, send a message for details..................................................... .............................................. Craig Schaffer is a singer from California. Since 1990, he has been composing songs for the dulcimer and a cappella pieces. On tour in France in 1994 with his Irish quartet, SPIRAL BOUND, he decided to move to Paris. He formed MZE SHINA in ’96, a trio of Georgian folk harmonies, with which he has toured and taught this traditional music in Europe and Canada and produced two CDs distributed in Europe and Canada........In 1999 he moved to Brittainy where he met and Emmanuel Ricou. January 2008, Ronan Maguet joins the group...........Ronan founded and leads SAMBADABOOM and plays with the trio virtuoso TRANSAT. Ronan plays bass, original percussion instruments : pandero, udu and samba kit........Emmanuel Ricou has collaborated with numerous songwriters to whom he lends his voice. He has studied lyric voice, has always been interested in mouth music and has performed as a soloist exclusively until So WAX.

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Member Since: 6/20/2006
Band Members: Craig Schaffer : voix, dulcimer..........Emmanuel Ricou : voix..............Ronan Maguet : voix, bass, percussion, pandero, samba kit, udu
Influences: Bobby McFerrin, James Taylor, the Police, Chicago, Zap Mama, Roots Radacs, Paul Simon, Queen, Georgian, Latvian and Bulgarian folk harmonies, Christy Moore, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Maynard Ferguson, Les Grandes Gueules, Richard Fariña...
Sounds Like: Bobby McFerrin meets Simon & Garfunkel
Type of Label: None