Dylan Bell
Toronto, Ontario, Canada | AFM
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Discography
(most recent only)
Perfomer:
Autorickshaw: So the Journey Goes, 2006
Cadence: Twenty For One, 2005
Producer/engineer:
Autorickshaw: So the Journey Goes, 2006
Rock4: A Night At The Opera, 2006
Cadence: Twenty For One, 2005
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Bio
In a word... eclectic. I always wanted to do everything musical, and I'm still trying!
I studied piano, violin and 'cello as a kid, and according to my Mom, started singing in public when I was three. Things turned in a different direction when I first heard Miles Davis' Kind of Blue at age 16: I sold my 'cello for a Fostex 4-track, took up the electric bass, learned to play mediocre guitar and drums, and started playing and singing jazz.
These days, I'm all over the place. For four years, I sang with the Juno-nominated vocal band Cadence. With whatever time is left over I sing with the a cappella all 80s-top-40 group Retrocity (you haven't lived till you've heard "one night in Bangkok" a cappella), and the vocal quartet Hampton Four. I also moonlight as a pianist and bassist, having played with artists from classical violin virtuoso Lara St. John, to subbing in occasionally with my wife Suba's band autorickshaw, even a gig with legendary Canadian rockers Honeymoon Suite. Rock on!
I also work as a producer/engineer, and received a 2006 Juno co-nomination (with mixmeister Adam Messinger) for Engineer of the Year, for the Cadence album Twenty For One.
I'm writing more now as well. I've won a couple of awards for my writing, and just finished co-writing some music for the Canadian channel CTV. Check me out at www.myspace.com/dylanthemusician.
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