DUSHANBE, June 26, 2014, Asia-Plus – The United Sates music group LE CHAT LUNATIQUE has arrived n Tajikistan.
LE CHAT LUNATIQUE is giving a free concert at the Vefa Center in Dushanbe today; starting time: 7:30 pm.
The event is organized by the United Sates Embassy in Dushanbe.
The group members include Muni Kulasinghe (violin, vocal), John Sandlin (electric guitar, vocal), Jared Putnam (bass-guitar, vocal) and Fernando Garavito (drums).
Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico to Sri Lankan parents, Muni Kulasinghe spent his formative school years in the sunny southwest and summers sojourning in serendipitous Sri Lanka. At 7 years old, he began the violin because he wanted to be like his older sister. By 18, in addition to aforementioned family sojourns, he’d traveled extensively with the Albuquerque Youth Symphony.
Guitarist John Sandlin has been playing music for twenty-one years. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in Classical Guitar Performance in 2003 from the University of New Mexico.
Jared Putnam was born in the great borough of Manhattan. After several years spent in bohemian errantry, he finally settled in New Mexico. He started playing electric bass at age 13, and soon after cultivated an intense interest in “death metal”. By the end of high school, however, his interests had broadened to include prog-rock, classic rock, jazz, world music, et cetera. Jared played in jazz combo, jazz band and orchestra. His talents were also called upon by the Santa Fe Symphony and the Roswell Symphony.
Fernando Garavito was born and raised in Bogota, Colombia. At the age of 18, he moved to the United States with his family, initially to Maine and two years later to New Mexico where he now lives. Son to a writer and a ballet teacher, he was surrounded by music and the arts since an early age. He began by playing piano at the age of 8, and at 12 he moved towards the study of drums. At first, self-taught, he learnt mostly by listening to a great variety of musical genres. Being influenced by pop, rock, funk, heavy metal, ska, reggae, and his native traditional music, he developed a good versatility in switching between different musical settings.
