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A drum solo from my roots land -Rennes - on the tune 'This or That' from Alain caron Album Septentrion itunes.apple.c...
Alain Caron: Bass
John Roney: Keyboard
Pierre Coté: Guitar
Damien Schmitt: Drums
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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. 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' : isyourteacher.com
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.
As you can see Damien never stop working to offer you his best.
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6 сен 2024
