JEREMY AVIS
(Cv highlights)

As an 'Ethnomusicologist', Jeremy's colourful singing journey has taken him through

 

 

 
 

 

territory as diverse as Congolese Pygmy camps,Pakistani Muezzins,Boy-band backing groups and warring tribes of medieval musicians. Jeremy has studied Operatic technique and was a choral scholar at New College Oxford.
After Oxford he embarked on a 12 month vocal tour of Africa studying songs of traditional
peoples such as the Fur of the East Sudan Mountains and Barabaig cattle-herders of Tanzania.
Back in the UK, he sang for the 'Dufay Collective' before a 4 month stay among Baka Pygmies
in Cameroon. Jeremy lived in Israel for 3 yrs.studying Sephardic song with Esti Knaan Offri and
Arabic music with George Yusef.
Film credits include;Marco Polo (Golan Globus) / Taximan.
Jeremy has regularly broadcast with Joglaresa,fronted his own band...
'Junglebean' at Womad and sung muezzin calls at ENO Studio.