Tunji Beier

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Tunji Beier (* 1970 in Papua New Guinea ) is a percussionist.

Beier spent the first years of his life in Nigeria, where he got to know the Yoruba percussion tradition in his early childhood . He returned to Papua New Guinea at the age of five and moved to Australia three years later. From 1980 he studied the traditional Yoruba percussion in Nigeria. In 1986 he founded a multicultural percussion trio in Sydney with two other percussionists from Nigeria and Australia. Today it consists of him, the Nigerian Rabiu Ayandokun and the Indonesian-trained Australian Ron Reeves . Her album Okuta Percussion was released in 1992.

From 1986 to 1989 Beier studied at the Karnataka College of Percussion in Bangalore and received the state examination as a master drummer. Since then he has worked at concerts and CD recordings with musicians such as Charlie Mariano , Billy Cobham , Iain Ballamy , Ashley Slater , TAS Mani , RA Ramamani , Trilok Gurtu , Zakir Hussain , Volker Jaekel , Satsuki Odamura , Linsey Pollak , Markus Stockhausen , der Schäl Sick Brass Band , the Deishovida group , the Roma band Xenos , the 17 Hippies and Stepanida Borisova .

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SURNAME Beier, Tunji
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian percussionist
DATE OF BIRTH 1970