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Joy Joseph is a singer, drummer. percussionist and steel pan player based in East London. She was born into a musical family as the daughter of Trinidadian Calypso legend Alexander D Great, and learned her chops playing with her father’s Great Band, and with various steel bands from an early age.
Joy plays steel pan and percussion and sings backing vocals for Mr Hudson & The Library, and appears on their debut album ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’. She also drums and sings backing for I Blame Coco (with Sting’s daughter Coco Sumner), and has written and sung for The HeartShake (alongside Jo Maeva). She is also renowned on the London club scene as a live percussionist and scene maker (recent djs she has worked with include Femi B, Rap Saunders, Paul Trouble Anderson, Guy Williams, Severino, Booker T, Danny Rampling, Boy George & DJ Disciple).
Joy’s debut solo single, “Our Love Is Taking Us Through”, was released on Frizz Records in August ‘08, and was written and produced by Raphael Mann (Mr Hudson & The Library/august/Art Terry). Joy’s solo style shows off the eclectic range of her influences and her varied musical experience, with elements of roots reggae, dancehall and lovers rock, house and electro, r&b and vintage soul and jazz. Joy cites her major influences as including Kassav, Alexander D Great, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrid Gilberto, Bob Marley, Soul2soul, Tony Allen, Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson.
Joy plays steel pan and percussion and sings backing vocals for Mr Hudson & The Library, and appears on their debut album ‘A Tale Of Two Cities’. She also drums and sings backing for I Blame Coco (with Sting’s daughter Coco Sumner), and has written and sung for The HeartShake (alongside Jo Maeva). She is also renowned on the London club scene as a live percussionist and scene maker (recent djs she has worked with include Femi B, Rap Saunders, Paul Trouble Anderson, Guy Williams, Severino, Booker T, Danny Rampling, Boy George & DJ Disciple).
Joy’s debut solo single, “Our Love Is Taking Us Through”, was released on Frizz Records in August ‘08, and was written and produced by Raphael Mann (Mr Hudson & The Library/august/Art Terry). Joy’s solo style shows off the eclectic range of her influences and her varied musical experience, with elements of roots reggae, dancehall and lovers rock, house and electro, r&b and vintage soul and jazz. Joy cites her major influences as including Kassav, Alexander D Great, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrid Gilberto, Bob Marley, Soul2soul, Tony Allen, Janet Kay and Carroll Thompson.
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Featured Tracks
| FULL TRACK Our Love Is Taking Us Through | 2:54 |
| FULL TRACK Out Of All The Boys & The Girls | 3:54 |
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isaacashe wrote:
Glorious stuff, can't wait for the LP.
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FrizzRecords wrote:
jamesthecat: Joy's solo album is coming later in the year, just this single so far! You can but both these songs on iTunes now... Thanks for listening!
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jamesthecat1 wrote:
JOY! i never even knew she had a solo album out, jeez, shes absoloutly ace, met her with the library in sandbach library years ago! im gonna buy this right now
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ffion_nia wrote:
oooh wow (: i love her in mr hudson, and this is also great! lovely.
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doudoudarling wrote:
Brilliant Joy Doudou!. Takes the words out of my mouth!
News
Frizz records presents… PARADE
31 Jul 2011 | from www.frizzrecords.com
The big news this month is that we’ve found a home for a
regular FRiZZ event in London…
We’re calling it PARADE, and we’ll be hosting it on the first
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Paul Rahme (aka Trople) – CD pre-orders now available
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STAGE and SCREEN
20 Nov 2010 | from www.frizzrecords.com -
FRiZZ TV
20 Oct 2010 | from www.frizzrecords.com
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Recent Activity
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volkaan connected Joy Joseph to the group Mr Hudson & The Library. August 2011
- Joy Joseph posted a news item ‘Frizz records presents… PARADE’. August 2011
- Joy Joseph posted a news item ‘Paul Rahme (aka Trople) – CD pre-orders now available’. April 2011
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bodystarx, PlexFromJers, LiviLuu and 2 other people added Joy Joseph to their libraries. February 2011
- Joy Joseph posted a news item ‘STAGE and SCREEN’. November 2010
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tinampf added Joy Joseph to tinampf’s library. November 2010
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TaggingMachine tagged Joy Joseph with ‘under 2000 listeners’. November 2010
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FrizzRecords uploaded frizz photo 324 to Joy Joseph’s images. November 2010
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FrizzRecords linked Joy Joseph to frizz photo 324. November 2010
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FrizzRecords uploaded Frizz Party @ Matsu 111 to Joy Joseph’s images. November 2010
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