S J Denney Releases “Friends and Lovers”
Photo Credit: Hester Denney
“Friends and Lovers” is my first venture into the Afrobeat genre.
I started out by singing a chant in French. My thinking was that there are quite a few Western African countries that speak French.
Once I'd sketched out the idea, I recorded a basic drum track along with 14 other percussion instruments. Most of the instruments you hear were played by me, with some additional icing supplied by a handful of amazing musicians from around the world.
S J Denney is a singer-songwriter based in Suffolk, United Kingdom. He fell in love with music from an early age, after stumbling across vinyl copies of The Beatles’ White Album and Neil Young’s Harvest. S J was originally a choir boy and performed in a number of venues across his local county. His next stepping-stone was learning to play the clarinet. Whilst music theory gave him a solid foundation, Denney soon decided to focus his efforts on self-learning the acoustic guitar and writing songs.
S J has performed in various bands, duos and now as a solo artist. These endeavours have seen him gig across the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland.