Saskia LarooMUSICIAN // NL // TRUMPET
With her trumpet, equipped with a wireless microphone Saskia loves to “lounge around” and create pleasant muted athmospheric sounds or give an exciting show, playing kicking hot licks and funky bop solo improvisations surrounded by dancing audiences. Performing with special effects devices around her waist which she can operate with one hand whilst playing the trumpet with the other, Saskia adds an extra dimension to contemporary house, techno, funk, electronica, R&B, hip-hop, reggae, downtempo and drum’n’bass.
Saskia has performed with DJ P Julm (Rulers of Deep, Estonia), DJ Ken Ishi from Japan (with Hans Dulfer),Dutch DJ’s Ronald Molendijk, Franky D, Michel le Hey, DJ Dimitri, Arley etc. She played at the Olympic Stadion of Seoul with her own backing tape. MTV showed her performance with DJ at Naomi Campbell ’s Party in the prestigeous Cipriani Hall in New York. With her keyboardist Warren Byrd she has played the Sunset Boulevard Festival in Los Angeles, Food and Taste Festival in Chicago and a Brazilian club tour in 2007.
Saskia Laroo performs solo (she has her own deejay equipment with backing tracks, a.o. of her original songs from her albums), with her keyboardist / with her own or local DJ / and / or with rappers, horn players, percussionists, dancers.