Biography

I am a live, recording & educational drummer/percussionist/instrumentalist via the Eastman School of Music and the Rehobath Temple Gospel Church in Harlem. Currently in Austin, TX, I have spent time in NYC, LA, the midwest & Quebec.

Movies and other media with me: Metro PCS Spicy News commercials by Tim Heintz/Wojahn Bros, The Women and the Waves surf documentary by Heather Hudson and Peck Euwer, Wormtooth Nation by Geoff Boothby (David Lynch TV), and 'Bring It On' by The Onion (America's Finest News Network) produced by Ivan Evangelista.

I am honored to have collaborated with Tony 'Ham' Guerrero (Tortilla Factory, La Familia), 'Leaf' Clive 'Nasser' Phillips (Black Sages, Mighty Sparrow, Phillip Glass), So Percussion, 8th Blackbird, Thomas Morris, Jon Brown (Archwood Music), David Greenbaum, Favored Nations's Rob Balducci, Eric Biondo's Beyondo, Jessica Vale, the New Yorker's Andy Friedman, Ivan Evangelistaof Hosspie Records and Jean-Luc Sinclair, Ethan Meixsell, every of Bran Van 3000, Freddy James, Maximillion, Kim Bingham, David 'Mousey' Edmead, John Kastner, the Binghi Boppa, Newspeak, David Amezcua (HotStreets, UTIOG, Hoobastank), Jason James Richter, Mrs. Glass, SoccerMom and more.

Check out HOSSPIERECORDS.COM to download free music from Ivan Evangelista's new label!

I appear on Tortilla Factory's new album 'Cookin' with Joey De Leon, Rene Camacho, Art Guillermo, Haskel Jackson, Carmen Grillo, Jerry Lopez & Bobby Butler 'El Charro Negro' which was nominated for the 2011 Grammy's Tejano Album of the Year and won the 2010-2011 Austin Music Awards Best Latin Traditional Album.

My teachers include John H. Beck, Joe Porcaro, Rich Thompson, Pandit Sharda Sahai, Ndugu Chancler, Luis Conte, Mitchell Peters, Jerry Steinholtz, Burleigh Drummond, Jason Treuting, Vera Daehlin, Joe LaBarbera, Bill Dobbins, Ruth Cahn as well as every musician I have ever heard.

Visit allrhythms.com to see the my online rhythmic educational curriculum.

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