Frédéric Yonnet

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Frédéric Yonnet (2014)

Frédéric "Fred" Yonnet (born April 30, 1974 in Pont-l'Évêque ) is a French jazz and funk musician ( harmonica ).

Live and act

Yonnet played drums from the age of 14 and performed at the Marciac Jazz Festival , among others . At the age of 19 he turned to the diatonic harmonica , which he can play chromatically . In 2001 he moved to the USA.

In 2009 and 2010, Yonnet was a member of Prince 's backing band The New Power Generation . He has also worked with musicians such as Angie Stone , Anthony Hamilton , Bob James , David Foster , Erykah Badu , Grand Corps Malade , John Legend , Jonas Brothers , Justin Bieber , India.Arie , Kindred the Family Soul , Patti Austin , Randall Darius Jackson , Stevie Wonder and The Touré-Raichel Collective . Yonnet also released three albums under its own name.

Yonnet is an endorser for CA Seydel Sons .

Discographic notes

  • Blowing Your Mind In Every Key of the Harp (2001)
  • Front & Center (2005)
  • Reed My Lips: The Rough Cut (2010)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Klaus Rohwer Jazz harmonica player in the world
  2. ↑ Backstage @Fourplay Jazz Birchmere . Blog.kirkwhalum.com. April 16, 2010. Archived from the original on January 12, 2018. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved January 10, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blog.kirkwhalum.com
  3. ↑ Ben Ratliff: Stevie Wonder and Friends, Here and Gone . In: The New York Times , November 19, 2007. 
personal data
SURNAME Yonnet, Frédéric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yvonnet, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French jazz and funk musician (harmonica)
DATE OF BIRTH April 30, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Pont-l'Évêque