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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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