Oh, and he's also got a sponsorship with the nearly ubiquitous drum set manufacturer Pearl Drums, just for kicks.Īll of this from a mop-topped kid in a black vest and a shirt with Borromean rings - which, of course, is Bonham's symbol from Led Zeppelin IV. So far he's played with Alice Cooper, made friends with KISS drummer Eric Singer and was once called a mini John Bonham by Howard Stern on America's Got Talent. This percussion prodigy has done more at age 11 than most of us will likely accomplish in the entirety of our comparatively sad lives. North Texas Ladies Get Their Due at All-Female 35 Denton Panel Talk 35 Denton Lives to Fight Another Day After a Year on the Brink In the J&J's Pizza basement during the 35 Denton music festival on Sunday he's already twirling his drumstick with one hand and pointing the other at the crowd like he's done it since the day he was born. Meanwhile, Domi and Beck co-wrote Skate, a single from Paak’s Grammy-sweeping collaboration with Bruno Mars, An Evening With Silk Sonic.The word prodigy comes from the Middle English word "prodigium," which translates into "monster" - and that's exactly what 11-year-old Logan Gladden is behind a drum set. Paak performs on two songs on Not Tight and co-wrote Moon, a collaboration he brokered with jazz legend Herbie Hancock.
“He just really understands us as people, and you don’t get that often,” says Beck. Paak, who is now a mentor and close collaborator. Videos of their jams caught the attention of jazz-adjacent luminary Thundercat, who enlisted them to play in his band, including during a 2020 Adult Swim performance featuring Ariana Grande and Anderson. Nonetheless, soon after, Degalle flew to Dallas to hang out with Beck. “It was like, the worst thing ever,” says Beck. They relay the story with the same frantic rhythm of their music: terrible gig, terrible instruments, terrible in-ear monitors. In 2018, a mutual friend enlisted the pair to perform in a product demonstration at an annual trade show designed to showcase music gear.
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“I grew up playing Led Zeppelin and the Police – it put me in that zone.” YouTube also proved helpful: he would watch “like, 10m videos” of iconic drummers such as Art Blakey, Elvin Jones and Tony Williams to study their techniques.īoth musicians became known as exceptional performers: Beck began playing with Erykah Badu’s band after the producer Jamal Cantero saw him at a jam session in Dallas, while footage of Domi blazing through Kendrick Lamar’s For Free went viral. “I gravitated towards jazz because of the fast drums,” he says. She began playing classical music, but it was the freedom and improvisational nature of jazz that she was most attracted to.īeck also began playing as a child, in Dallas, learning classical piano from the age of five and then drums. Jazz was big in her household: “Charlie Parker, Keith Jarrett, the standard swing jazz.” At five, she was enrolled at the Conservatoire Régional du Grand Nancy later she was admitted to the Conservatoire de Paris and Boston’s prestigious Berklee College of Music, though the latter hesitated to admit her because she hadn’t yet received her high school diploma. Photograph: Tehillah De Castroĭomi was born Domitille Degalle in Metz, north-east France.
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