Hands On Percussion
I've played drums since COVID hit and as soon as I started it was second nature. I started by drumming on a wooden board while my brother had a djembe, and one day during the quarantine the drum teacher,Baba Don Eaton Babatunde, brought me a djembe to play on. Ever since then I've been taking classes and working on my craft. I love hearing the rhythm, the deep base , the high slap and the tone in between
I'm a tap dancer from Harlem. I've been trained since I was 5 when my dad started teaching me. He taught me everything I know. I've been performing since I was 6. Rhythm guides me through life and it's been an anchor that I can't escape and I don't want to. I want to share my art with the world and perform on the next level.
My home occupies the exact footprint of the legendary Savoy Ballroom, a block-long rhythm factory known during the Harlem Renaissance as the "Heartbeat of Harlem" and the "Home of Happy Feet". For me , performing tap dance and djembe isn't just an artistic choice, it's a direct, living continuation of the sonic history, resistance, and joyous percussion that was born right where I sleep. I stomp at savoy just like the people who were here before me in a place they tried to put in black and white to make it seem ancient . My roots are what make me the person I am today.