percussionist | educator | sound designer

Shawn is a music educator and sound engineer in the day and a gigging musician at night. He performs on the drums, percussion and guitar. Shawn is known for his hand drum techniques and brushwork.

In 2006 his band Amber was top 10 of Mediacorp Channel U Super Band competition, and ever since Shawn has been performing at weddings, events and functions all over Singapore. In 2009 he performed for the APEC dinner, for world leaders and dignitries including Mrs Hillary Clinton.

These days he can be found performing at venues such as The Esplanade, Wala Wala, Beer Market, CMPB, Overtime, TAB, The Merry Men, China One and Indochine. Reinventing the Djembe and Cajon for today’s music, Shawn garnered a huge following online with his instruction videos, accumulating over a million hits.

For bookings email TURBOCHICKEN@GMAIL.COM

• Busy Girl is up on iTunes!

  
  
  
  
  
  BIGGER NEWS. Someone imported all my 100 Youtube Djembe videos onto some Thai music website.
  
  
  

  RANT.

  The word for August is BLISTERING. Meekness is not weakness but you know how some people talk so freely they’re so rude you want to sit on them.

  Learn, from Batman.

  

  • #wala
  • #batman
  25 Aug 2011 / 2 notes