Showing posts with label saxophonist. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 6, 2011

Guitarist aka Saxophonist aka Wardrobe Designer - Niki



Niki (Real Name: Dominique) is one of the newer members of Scarlett. She started playing with the band about 2 years ago, bringing along with her years of training on the tenor sax and a quiet resilience. Coming from a very musically inclined family, talent flows and pulsates in Niki’s blood (perhaps to the beat of Stephane Pompougnac???). In fact, the family itself could probably form their own band. Aside from the saxophone, Niki also plays the keyboard and the guitar.

Enjoying the simple things in life, is somewhat Niki’s life motto. She is honest and down to earth, basically as one often puts it, what you see is what you get. This makes Niki great company - a fabulous person to just spend a lazy afternoon with on a beach, at a café or at a bookstore. She also makes the best audience for jokes – her easy nature disposes her to laugh at everything.

Creative and very artistic, Niki is a trained architect; her work includes private residences (even some belonging to royalty!). She’s the one who’s always sketching on the corners of workbooks and stray pieces of paper, coming up with fun ideas on how we can spruce up our performances, giving radical suggestions on what we should wear and what the theme of our nights should be (on that note, watch out for our outfits this Friday!). In her free time, she dives, rollerblades, indulges in art and craft weekends, drinks iced milk teas known locally as “teh peng” as she watches the world go by. At the moment, she’s wistfully dreaming of an opportunity to immerse herself into the crystal turquoise waters of the Maldives…

Her secret dream job? To be a marine biologist’s helper, documenting and photographing underwater life; while illustrating children’s books and keeping a jellyfish as a pet.

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Saxophonist - Rapper - Musicologist - DJ-Shyn aka. Miss Multi-Talented















While Newton discovered gravity when hit by a falling apple, Shyn Yee discovered and conceptualized "Project Donate a Song" while having a foot massage (which has now evolved into "Scarlett Rocks for aidha")

One of the original founders of Scarlett, Shyn Yee made quite the impression rapping to Lady Marmalade, electrifying the 1000-strong crowd at SMU campus with her infectious groove, and soulful performance. She literally killed the crowd, and had them lapping up for more.

For that moment in the spotlight, Shyn Yee earned street cred as "The Rapper" of the 8 piece all girl band back in Singapore Management University. Street cred aside, it is her skills in picking and re-arranging songs, making them uniquely Scarlett, that has earned the role of band musicologist and creative inspiration throughout the years, constantly dreaming of new ideas to add fresh grooves to the band's style.

When she's not rapping or being the purveyor of Scarlett's musical taste, Shyn Yee is a well travelled, hotel management consultant, and has travelled to Bhutan, Bali, Maldives for WORK. She is also an amazing cook (she specializes in Greek & Thai cuisine, and is currently perfecting her Nonya recipes) and the official band photographer for this event (which explains why all of us have really nice pictures, except her).

Did we mention she's also a linguist? Shyn Yee speaks at least 6 languages, and considers poetry and scriptwriting, as her past-times. Not many of us know she won SMU's first 24-hour script-writing competition. Plus, she won it with her solo entry, while others were struggling in teams of 4.

An advocate of women empowerment, catch Shyn Yee live @ TAB on the 8th of April!