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I am a songwriter, composer and producer with many years of worldwide musical experience. I play guitar, tabla drums, keyboards, harmonica, bass, trumpet and also sing. Over the years I have recorded with groups of many genres including Rock, Rhythm & Blues, African, Jazz, Hip-Hop, Calypso, Reggae, Rap, and East Indian Classical music. My latest CDs are mastered with uplifting, energy-balancing technologies including: 'Tranquility' re-mastered with 'Hemi-Sync' Technology and 'The Real Cool Kingdom' mastered with Lumin White's 'FMR' processing. I recorded 'RCK' in Japan while donating my services to Earthwalker's International Advisory Team of promoting world peace, planting trees and encouraging people to preserve our natural environment. These
past few years I have been working in Kauai, Hawaii as the Music
Director for a software entertainment company CodeName
Mana.
From 1994 to 1999 I worked for One Song Inc., a computer
game company in Sausalito, California. My first two recordings:
'Whispers In the Wind' and 'Lavender Blue' were released on
Inner Light Records and received top ratings with five star
acclaim in
Option
and Jazziz
magazines.
My previous band, 'The O Band' composed and recorded the soundtrack
for the video game 'Endorfun'
released by Time Warner Interactive in 1996. As
a toddler I was intrigued by music and loved to play songs on
the piano and my toy trumpet. At the age of five I began studying
the accordion and then sang in my school and church choirs.
In Junior High I began playing a real trumpet and received scholarships
and awards. In High School I recorded an album on guitar with
the award winning Ann Arbor Huron High Jazz Band. In college
I studied composition, arranging and trumpet at Oakland University
in Michigan and was offered a scholarship to attend the New
England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. I then
began playing the tabla drums after becoming interested in East
Indian Classical music and traveled to India to deepen my practice
of meditation and yoga which I taught in New York and California
upon returning to the States. In the late 90's I perfected my
engineering and producing skills studying Pro Tools digital
recording in San Francisco, California. |
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