Nick Saya

Nick Saya is a Producer, Engineer, Mixer, Drummer, Programmer, Multi Instrumentalist and Songwriter. Nick's work covers a wide variety of styles including Rock, R+B, Hip Hop, Dance, Pop, Film Score and Sound Design. He is much sought after for both his musical and technical expertise in recording and production. As a drummer he has played with and or recorded with Blood Sweat and Tears, Tom Bones Malone,Lew Soloff, Alan Rubin, Blue Lou Marini, Lenny Pickett, Gloria Gaynor, Gordon Gaines, David Fiuczynski and The Screaming Headless Torsos,John Medeski (Medeski Martin And Wood) and Chris Baron (The Spin Doctors). He has been a member of the Annie Minogue Band from the start of the project and has shared the stage opening for David Lee Roth, Dave Navaro, The Black Eyed Peas, Chris Whitley and others. Nick plays drums, co-writes the material as well as produces Annie's project. Nick is currently in studio working on the fourth cd for Annie which is to be released on Fontana/Universal.
Nick has worked as a programmer for DJ Jonathan Peters lending his talents to JP's productions (Jon secada, Ayumi Hamazaki and others). He has had many songs he has written placed in movies, TV and commercial jingle spots. Nick has written for jingle houses such as Lim Beat Music and TOM AND ANDY. He is a member of the scoring team Motion Music Works that specializes in multi media and film scoring. The sample company PowerFx has signed Nick on as a featured producer in their company. PowerFx distributes original drum loops created by Nick. Nick also writes for multiple Music Libraries including Strike Audio and jingle Punks

Current Equipment Endorsements:
Smith Custom Drums
Gibraltar Hardware
Sabian Cymbals
Vic Firth drum sticks
Audix Microphones
Protection Racket Cases
Ableton Software
Propeller Heads Software
Gauge Microphones
Latin Percussion
Evans Drum Heads