How did you first become interested in playing the
so many family on hand, I found myself always
drums?
hanging around the drummers.
When my dad asked me what I wanted for my
I can remember clearly going to a place I believe they
birthday that summer, I remember clearly standing in
called the “Grove,” where most of the Christian
the kitchen telling him that if he got me one of those
Lebanese would go on Sundays in the summer to
drums that I could play it. He laughed at my serious
picnic. The food thing was ridiculous because so
commitment and said OK. My uncle Dave Morad,
many of the Lebanese community were involved in
who was a wonderful drummer in both Western and
the grocery business. My father was one of the
Arabic, came to give me my first lesson. After that
founders of the Save-more food group, which lasted
first meeting he told my dad that I had performed
quite a while. The picnics always had a healthy dose
everything back at him that he played for me, but that
of music where the musicians would play darbuka
I did it left handed. That lefty thing may have been
and American percussion, clave’s and maracas, and
for real, because I was taught to be a righty even
sometimes the oud. The dancing was intense, and for
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