Get the Play Along HERE and make your own video: SUBSCRIBE: Let's stay in touch, Join me on my page guys!!!! Damien Schmitt Born in a family of musicians, Damien first learned playing the drums with his father From the age of 4, he practiced as a musician directly on stage. His mother being a piano teacher and singer in the family band, he took an early interest in singing and learned to play several instruments including bass and guitar which quickly became his favourite. At 16 years old he produced, directed and released his first album under the name Yossoma. He sings and plays all the instruments on this record. After this first experience as a professional recording artist and director, he created his band where he was writing music and texts. This band ended up performing at the final of the “Printemps de Bourges” festival in France, a very important festival where many new talents started their professional career.
Funky Drummer Lyrics: Yeah, we just chilling in the spot, DJ Tat Money and Steady B, and we got a little friend we wanna introduce y'all to. His name is Funky Drummer, and we 'bout to get cold stupid.
The adventure continues and 3 years later he released a second album: Yossoma - FM Francophone Revolution. 2001 Damien moved to Paris.
This is where he started playing as a live drummer on tour for the most famous French artists like Yannick Noah, Khaled, Gage, Alain Georges Jones, Emma Daumas, Zap Mama, Les Nubians. He forged a solid reputation in the jazz fusion and played with Dominique Di Piazza, Jean-Marie Ecay, Hadrien Feraud. It also replaces Paco Sery in Sixun. Offering also his talents on records, he is featured on a lot of best seller albums (see Discography) with for example Jannick Top & Eric Lelann, Bireli Lagrene, brothers Raymond, Hadrien Feraud. He is also a member of of Jean-Luc Ponty’s band since 2007. In 2010 he started his collaboration with Alain Caron.
They recorded 2 albums: 'Septentrion(2010) Multiples Faces (2013) Since 2010 he's playing in the amazing trio with alain Caron and Frank Gambale In 2011 he created the XARDA PRODUCTION company with his partner Alex Grousset. They created the educative APP for Android, Ipad,PC,MAC 'isYOURteacher': In 2012 Damien is called to be part, as a singer, to the well know TV Show: The Voice. In 2013 his electro album 'Make Some Noise' came out under the name of Electro-Schmitt In 2015 Damien will finally deliver The Dada Show's album, electro/Funk/Broken beat album.
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In this Sept. 4, 2015 photo, legendary drummer Clyde Stubblefield plays a set on the drums at Sosonic studio before a performance to raise money for a scholarship fund established in his name in Madison, Wis. Stubblefield, a drummer for James Brown who created one of the most widely sampled drum breaks ever, died Saturday, Feb. 18, 2017, at age 73. His wife, Jody Hannon, told The Associated Press that Stubblefield died of kidney failure at a Madison, Wis., hospital.
(Amber Arnod/Wisconsin State Journal/The Associated Press). Clyde Stubblefield, known primarily as James Brown's drummer, from kidney failure. The response from musicians everywhere to the passing of the 'Funky Drummer' was. While he was known in his prime for his drumming on classic late-1960s and early '70s James Brown material such as ' and the Sex Machine LP, Stubblefield's drumming found a new lease on life through sampling in the late '80s and early '90s. An isolated 20-second drum solo — often called a break in hip-hop circles — from James Brown's 1970 track 'Funky Drummer' (at 5:19 in the video below), quickly gained popularity and its use spread unfettered into popular hits of the '90s and beyond. According to Rolling Stone, the 'Funky Drummer' break that Stubblefield composed has been.
On some of these tracks, Stubblefield's drumming has been sped up, slowed down or modified in other ways by producers, but despite this, they are all still unmistakably underpinned by the 'Funky Drummer' beat. Here are five popular songs that have used the 'Funky Drummer' break created by Stubblefield. Public Enemy, 'Rebel Without a Pause' Public Enemy (and its famed production team the Bomb Squad) was one of the first groups to use the 'Funky Drummer' break. Its underpinning use on on their arresting breakthrough single can be heard from the 12-second mark onwards. Comments To encourage thoughtful and respectful conversations, first and last names will appear with each submission to CBC/Radio-Canada's online communities (except in children and youth-oriented communities). Pseudonyms will no longer be permitted.
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