Sándor Födő Jr. – drums, percussions, keyboards, music and arrangement

HISTORY
Born in Budapest, Hungary at 1981. He started to play piano at the age of 6 in the music school. Then he went to a secondary school of music and he started to learn classic percussions (marimba, xylophone, vibraphone). After the school years he kept learning from various teachers, jazz piano from Andras Horvath, Gyorgy Percel and Janos Nagy, drums from Imre Koszegi and Istvan Balo. He had no teacher for the percussions, he has learned it by himself. The main impressions for that came from Trilok Gurtu, Giovanni Hidalgo, Luis Conte and Don Alias.

As a band member first he played with the band NoCoMMent on piano, later on perciussions.

The bands he played are:
Eszter Horgas, Tamás Sólyom, Zsuzsa Kósa, János Bródy, László Tolcsvay, Márta Sebestyén, Mihály Sípos, Jamie Winchester and Róbert Hrutka, Irén Lovász and the Hungarian World Music Orchestra, Péter Gerendás and the Los Gerendos, Desney Bailey, Rét, Energomat, Ricardo Salsa Club, Triton, Group & sax (Saxofon Quartet), Freeport (ex Tax Free), Active Massat, Freak, Road Kill Café.

These days he plays in a number of productions across Hungary:
Kánaán - The winner of the LGT. festival - percussions, drum
Egyszercsak - keyboards, percussions
János Másik - percussions, drum
Gábor Presser - percussions
Silent Way - percussions
Dafina - arrangement, keyboards, percussions, drum
Moll Flanders (The Kováts Workshop and Millenaris production) - percussions
Judit Halász - keyboards
Romantic - percussions
2 perc - percussions show with Kornél Mogyoró

OWN PRODUCTIONS
His first compositions are from 1995, those were played by his first group, the Polyphonia Band with 11 members (instrumental jazz-rock) where he played on the piano. From this band later he formed Kis Generacio where the members were professional musicians. From the compositions of those days became the first solo CD in 2000, “For a long time” with Tamas Zaletnyik (guitars) and Gyula Csepregi (sax).

Then Dafina has been formed, which is his main band now. Dafina plays unique music, a mix of world music with Hungarian and Balkan folk motives and jazz.

THE FUTURE
Sandor is working on synthesizing the modern electronic sound into the music of Dafina. Also he helps Kornel Mogyoro writing his book about the percussion instruments.