Ken Okada Group Ft. Yoyoka at Alvas Showroom

Experience the electrifying performance of 14-year-old drumming sensation YOYOKA as she joins forces with the Ken Okada Group in a high-energy jazz fusion concert. The ensemble also features Grammy-winning saxophonist Ben Torres, DownBeat Rising Star guitarist Hristo Vitchev, and four-time Grammy-nominated pianist Murray Low.

About YOYOKA:
Born in Hokkaido, Japan, YOYOKA started playing drums even before she began to speak. When she was eight years old, she became the youngest weekly champion in the global drumming contest “Hit Like a Girl.” During this period, YOYOKA’s drum cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” received international recognition and praise, including from Robert Plant himself....

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Experience the electrifying performance of 14-year-old drumming sensation YOYOKA as she joins forces with the Ken Okada Group in a high-energy jazz fusion concert. The ensemble also features Grammy-winning saxophonist Ben Torres, DownBeat Rising Star guitarist Hristo Vitchev, and four-time Grammy-nominated pianist Murray Low.

About YOYOKA:
Born in Hokkaido, Japan, YOYOKA started playing drums even before she began to speak. When she was eight years old, she became the youngest weekly champion in the global drumming contest “Hit Like a Girl.” During this period, YOYOKA’s drum cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Good Times Bad Times” received international recognition and praise, including from Robert Plant himself.

YOYOKA became the youngest person to be featured on Drummerworld’s list of the world’s Top 500 Drummers and appeared in Newsweek Japan’s “100 Most Respected Japanese in the World.”
About Ken Okada:
Bassist, composer, and arranger Noriyuki Ken Okada was born in New York and raised in São Paulo, Brazil, and Yokohama, Japan. Ken’s teenage years brought inspiration from Japanese fusion and video game music, leading him to explore jazz and winning the largest national collage big band competition in Japan.

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