Sangmin Lee is one of the most in-demand recorded live session drummers in South Korea. After a decade of session experience, Sangmin relocated to the states and studied at Berklee College of Music (B.M.) and New York University (M.M). The fresh and vibrant music scene in New York lured him to explore and expand his musicality by collaborating with artists such as Grammy-winning music producer Fran Cathcart, Casey Benjamin, Dave Pietro, Hiram Bullock, Leo Genovese and many others. Sangmin released his first solo album titled “Evolution” in 2010 as a music producer, composer, and a drummer. The great jazz fusion drummer Akira Jimbo claimed Sangmin’s style as “Hyper jazz rock hip hop techno mixture” – inventive and non-traditional.
 
Just like his album title, Sangmin has progressively pushed beyond his limit as a drummer and gained recognition as a jazz artist when he won his first award at International Jarasum jazz competition in 2008. Sangmin performed with Korean pop artists such as the all-time famous Rain, Park Junghyun, Lee Juck, Lee Sora, and many other renowned Korean musicians in various genres. New York’s jazz scene is Lee’s next new frontier as he leaves his fame and culture behind in Korea. His musical presence will be an everlasting footprint in Korea but his innovative musical talents will bring a breath of fresh air to New York City.
 
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BigYuki is NYC’s musical secret weapon.
 
Supported by Grammy Award winning drummer Daru Jones (Jack White, Talib Kweli, Kim Burrell, Esperanza Spalding) and emerging guitarist Randy Runyon (The Karma Exchange, Bilal, Jennah Bell), it is hard to believe that music this big is created by a trio.
BigYuki’s extensive vocabulary fuels his ability to create hit sounds, attracting the attention of so many artists including several Grammy Award-winning and nominated personalities including QTip, Bilal, Talib Kweli, Harvey Mason, Marcus Strickland, Mark Giuliana, and Me’Shell Ndegeocello.
 
This is a new sound. Infusing elements of Jazz, Classical, HipHop, Soul, Rock, Dance, and Electronica into his compositions, BigYuki’s highly-anticipated debut EP promises to be a blood-pumping excursion into the infinite soundscapes of this virtuosic mind.
 
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A classically trained vocal veteran, Bilal released his debut album 1st Born Second in 2001, which boasted the popular single “Soul Sista.” The follow-up, Love for Sale (2006), was shelved but leaked entirely online yet was well received to fans and music critics and has become an underground classic. In the following years, Bilal has collaborated and performed with some of the industry’s most prominent artists including, Beyonce (Fighting Temptations), Common (Like Water for Chocolate, Electric Circus, Be, Finding Forever), Jay-Z (American Gangster), Erykah Badu (New Amerykah Part One, New Amerykah Part Two), Robert Glasper (All Matter), Boney James (Better With Time), Musiq (Soulstar) and The Roots among others. He also covered Radiohead’s “High & Dry” for the 2006 Radiohead tribute, Exit Music: Songs With Radio Heads. Bilal also appears in Dave Chappelle’s Block Party.

Yangbro – Saxophone
Hyungjin Choi – Piano/Keyboards
Junbeom-Kim – E. guitar
Daesul Kim – E. bass
Sungtaek Oh – Drums