Why drumming?

Because drumming is one of the most raw, ancient form of expression that ever existed. I can feel it in my bones, in my soul, in my blood, in my muscles, in the air flowing around me in harmony with my movements... I can feel my heart pumping as I lay down a big groove or a sensual one, but progressively I forget my heart to the profit of bass drum, my brain became the snare, my decisions are the toms and my emotions, the cymbals. That's why...

At 7 years old I started out with the african Djembe, and my dad got back to guitar at the same time.
One year after, I passed through a skin cancer (lymphoedema) located on my right knee - I had two work 2 times harder to get my actual bass drum technique.

My dad, while helping me to survive, also transmitted me the swing, and soon I was feeling the drumsticks on an old phonebook wrapped in duck-tape - the ''guetto pad''. On my 11th birthday he got me a propper drumset. 5 five years later, I also got the audition to enter the Montreal Jazz Festival's Bluescamp (summer 2013). I studied with Kai Basanta, Nicolas Gosselin and Sam Harisson (nephew of the great Bob Harisson, Montreal's "Shuffle King").

***I'm currently drumming for the band Clara and the Sky and studying jazz drumming at Saint-Laurent college, but I'm looking for project every summer, including tracking, touring, and any other profesionnal gigs. ***

Past venues include :

- Gigging in Montreal's parks with Oxy-Jeune's house band during summer 2015

=> August 9th at Place-Valois

=> August 16th at Square-Chabot

=> August 22th at Parc des Habitations Jeanne-Mance

- Montreal International Jazz Festival Bluescamp's 2013 with the Holy Dough band

- Regular gig at Le Dépanneur Café

- Le National theater with Oxy-Jeunes as a member of Arkaïk

- Bain Mathieu with the Oxy-Jeune's House band

- Pavillon Noir Studio

I have recorded and performed with the following artists :

- Castophe

- Kevin St-Pierre

- Camp de Blues

- Jean-Paul Bataille

- Oxy-Jeunes House Band

- Florence Leroux-Doré

- Eau'thentik

- Arkaïk (RIP)

- X-trem musik camp

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