Yanya
Boston
Bio
So
here's the deal. I was born in Holland in 1977, but
was living in Adelaide, Australia before my first
birthday. Fast forward 12 years and I reached that
point that I think all boys reach where they have
the urge to hit things. Not people of course, DRUMS.
Basically, taught myself drums, along with guitar
and piano, but drums was my main interest. By age
fifteen I was playing in clubs and spent the next
few years as a regular fixture within the local Adelaide
original music scene, playing in bands, freelancing,
recording. But basically being paid to hit things.
1997 saw my first musical venture overseas. A tour
of about 15 multicultural performers traveling through
France and into Spain. HUGE learning experience and
one Ill never forget for both good and bad reasons.
However I enjoyed the collaboration of music and travel
and over the next few years toured to New Zealand
on more than one occasion, as well beginning to play
interstate. When home, I continued to play in bands
and even tried my hand at some management as well
as producing. In 2000 I was asked to play for Adelaide
band Fruit and have continued to do so until this
day: Fruit have been fortunate enough to have undertaken
13 tours throughout America as well as multiple tours
to UK, Europe, Canada, and Asia, so the music/travel
combo have served me well so far. Within this time
I have also managed to set up a couple of writing
collaborations which gives me a chance to work on
my guitar and piano abilities as a writing tool. Also
had some more producing experience, which is something
Id like to learn lots more about. In the last few
years Ive managed to do some freelance touring in
any down time from Fruit commitments and I must say
that I can think of fewer jobs Id rather be doing
that than traveling the world through Music......
Percussion: Sometime in 2001 after coming off stage
in Philadelphia with Fruit, I was asked to play percussion
with the following band, an Afro/Reggae/Funk outfit
from Washington DC. They had a large percussion rig
onstage and invited me to play the gig with them,
which of course I did. I had so much fun I decided
that day I got home I would buy myself a percussion
rig. Shortly after purchasing my percussion rig, I
was invited to play along side a DJ friend of mine,
and since then I haven't had a weekend in Adelaide
where I wasn't playing in one of Adelaide top dance
music clubs. I guess you could say I've specialized
in playing house music which has since given me the
opportunity to play alongside some of most famous
DJs and dance music producers from Australia and worldwide,
including; Boogie Pimps, Martin Solvig, Colour Sound,
Alex Taylor, Chicken Lips, the Aviators... I feel
privileged to be able to participate in so many different
Genres of music. Within the live music scene I get
to play everything from Singer Songwriter based material
to Soul, Funk, Rock, Folk and then of course, with
my DJ related percussion gigs I'm playing to banging
house, RNB, Hip Hop. It's all good stuff though and
keeps me inspired to keep pursuing many different
avenues of drums and percussion. (Credit:
Yanya Boston MySpace.com)
Websites
Yanya
Boston official website
Yanya
Boston MySpace.com
Profiles
Mahalia
Barnes
Ruby
Rabbit
Yanya
Boston, Mahalia Barnes and band with Greg Tingle (Ruby
Rabbit)
Media
Man Australia had the pleasure to see and hear Yanya
Boston perform with Mahalia Barnes at the Ruby Rabbit
on the 17th November 2006
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