Mechanical Teddy | en

Teddy Sakakibara, born on 23th August 1989, Japan On his parents’ recommendation, Teddy started playing the electric organ when he was two years old. At age nine, he discovered human beat-boxing online, self-teached it and eventualy made his first live debut as a professional beat-boxer at the age of 15. From that point on, he participated in many music arrangements and compositions. In 2008 he joined Japanese solo artist 雅-miyavi- on his first world tour, where he played 33 shows in a total of 14 countries throughout Europe, South America, North America, Asia, and Japan. After that, he joined the...

Teddy Rok Seven is Teppo Mäkynen and another group of six others (hence the making of a seven), Teppo is responsible for the sticks and skins for Nuspirit Helsinki & The Five Corners Quintet and is he outright leader of the band. Live wise, you can expect Timo Lassy & Mikko Innanen on the saxophones, Jukka Eskola on trumpet, Ville Riippa on keyboards, Timo Hirvonen on bass and Abdissa Assefa on percussion. The brotherhood of jazz and soul is very strong in Helsinki, and like other Jupiter releases, they enjoy the individual quantities of friendship and music and helping each...

Minneapolis native Teddy Morgan began playing guitar in his early teen years. As a singer and songwriter, Morgan was first influenced by Bob Dylan, but after hearing an album by Lightnin' Hopkins, he decided to pursue a straightahead blues track instead. Although he paid attention to Dylan's blues as well as the Allman Brothers and Jimi Hendrix, Morgan wanted to play blues full-time; but, like so many other younger players, he is influenced almost as much by blues-rock as he is by classic blues players like Hopkins. Morgan quit high school at 17 and the next year joined the Lamont...