Artists - Yamaha

Christian "Kicken" Lundqvist

Christian ”Kicken” Lundqvist is born and raised outside Stockholm In Sweden.

Dave McClain

Sacred Reich

Antonio Sanchez

Pat Metheny Group//Gary Burton//David Sanchez Quartet//

Mike Bordin

FAITH NO MORE//Ozzy Osbourne

Bob Knight

Born in Yorkshire, England in the late 70's Bob Knight started playing drums aged 6 and got his first Yamaha kit aged 12.

Jimmy Chamberlin

Founding member of one of the most successful Indie Bands of all time: The Smashing Pumpkins

Jas Kayser

Between Jazz & Afro-beat: For drummer, composer and producer Jas Kayser, drums are the source of all her musical productions.

Dave Rowntree

Born in Colchester, Essex, Rowntree was born to musical parents – Susan, a viola player, and John, a sound engineer at the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). He attended the Gilberd School, Colchester during the week, and the Landermere Music School, Thorpe-le-Soken, at weekends, where he studied percussion. He played percussion with his father in the Colchester Silver Band, a brass band.

Gulli Briem

Born in Reykjavik, Iceland. As a child Gulli started banging on pots and pans on the kitchen floor of the family home in Reykjavik. Played guitar for two years and sang in a school band until the original drummer got sick and was forced to leave his chair. Practiced drums in the loft of the Briem family residence, while playing in high school bands and musicals, where he met Johann Asmundsson a co-founding member of Mezzoforte (1977). The pair soon met Eythor Gunnarsson and Fridrik Karlsson in a Reykjavik music store, where Fridrik sold guitars. Recorded and toured with the band internationally from 1982. Their first big worldwide success with the group was in 1983 with the U.K. dance funk hit "Garden Party" and the Surprise, Surprise album. Mezzoforte has been nominated five times as the drummer of the year in Iceland.

Terri Lyne Carrington

Born in Medford, Massachusetts, Terri Lyne Carrington developed a reputation as a child prodigy, jamming with jazz veterans Dizzy Gillespie, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Oscar Peterson, Joe Williams, and many more. At age 7, she was given her first set of drums, which had belonged to her grandfather, Matt Carrington, who had played with Fats Waller and Chu Berry.