Artist description Violin & piano-driven musical music. Grammy-credit players making "AAA" rock something to not be ashamed of...

Music Style AAA Rock meets Jazz with some parts Reggae, Ska, World, and Funk. All in one identifiable/ accessible package! (yea right)

Musical Influences Sting, Keith Jarrett, Michael Penn, Miles Davis, Shostakovich, your mom

Similar Artists Dave Matthews Band, Sting, Steely Dan, Michael Penn, David Gray, Paganini

Artist History Unusually adept musicians dead serious but god do we have fun. Collaborative & democratic. Every rehearsal's a pleasure. Started with a reggae bent, sidetracked into self-conscious radio rock, now everything from your little sister's comfort rock to straight ahead jazz to covering a Paganini concerto to esoteric timbale-loop driven musical extravaganzas gliding from 5/4 to 7/4 to 4/4 to 3/4 to - god help us - 10/4 time signatures, all within a single song...

Group Members Scott Baldyga - lead vocals, keyboards, guitar, mandolin. Concert musician credits include Ziggy Marley, Third World, Black Uhuru, Junior Reid, Shabba, Shaggy, & every other Jamaican artist popular when Scott lived in Kingston '91-'95. Ex-keyboardist/vocalist with "Tely" cum "Metromax" now known as "Abandoned Pools" featuring Tommy Walters of "the eels." As a film/ TV/ internet series/ theater/ commercial composer, clients/ producers include MTV, Spike Lee, Fran Drescher, Jim Henson Productions, SciFi, HBO, Saban, POWER 106FM, Japan Travel Bureau, Broadway/ LA/ Caribbean professional theater. Entertainment credits include TV writer, screenwriter, film editor, IATSE script supervisor, associate casting director on $100,000,000 projects/ casting director on $100,000 projects, and soft-core porn director... Varujan - violin. Hotshot session musician, classical composer, Paganini lover, ex-Army Ranger, ex-globe-trotting photojournalist, rarely admits & less-often actually works as an attorney... Jenni Carter - backing vocals, percussion. Spanking new KOKOmember, lucky to have her. Dedication & talent galore. Around-town vocalist & heartthrob. Check out her own page on mp3.com: great-sounding songs. Someday we'll be her personal assistants. Anna Stafford - backing vocals, 2nd violin, keys, percussion. What other rock band lists a 2nd violinist?? Our other happy-to-have-her new addition. Scooped her up 3 weeks after she moved to LA (June, 2003), ink still wet on her Masters in Composition. The girl was performing as a singer in a feature film (real one) within her first month in LA - ok so it was performing with KOKOPELLI but it was days after her audition & without a single band rehearsal - still, a good phone call to mom. We expect great things from young Anna. Check out a string quartet of hers at her mp3.com page. Taki - bass (and guitar whenever it's too tough a part for Scott). The most talented one. Boxing Gandhis & FORM bassist, toured with Pat Benatar (must've been 15 yrs old at the time). Berklee grad (admitted 2 years after first touching a musical instrument). Composing credits include indie films & Japanese TV. Ex-piano mover. Call him - he'll play anything for $200/show... Bruce Zelesnik - the one with the stories. Plucked from smalltown Illinois by Miles Copeland & signed to IRS when young & tender (2nd band signed by Miles - after The Police). Several US & world tours opening for The Police. Member of ole MCA worldbeat band Worldwise. Also Stan Ridgway's drummer. Composing credits include way-cool movies... Fondly remembered ex-KOKOmembers include: Chris Rice, Gary Pavlica, Mike Swain, Ted Moriguchi, Mor Koren, Maya Haddi, Tiffany Austin, Lena Katz, Dane Calcone.

Instruments Lead & backing vocals, keys, guitar, string section (ok, 2 violins but damn that sounds good), occassional mandolin, bass, percussion, BZ's deranged loops, drum kit.

Albums CDs galore

Press Reviews "They're so good!" - Scott's mom... "Bass player's pretty good." - Scott's brother... "Wow! You guys are awesome! You should wear leather pants though." - anonymous Casting Director... "As long as your backing singer keeps wearing those plastic pants I'll keep coming." - Gary Pavlica... "My god you guys are so much better than I expected - will you cover 'Brandy' for our soundtrack?" - film producer Andrea Michaud... "Kokopelicious!" - passing vagabond

Additional Info Compose as a group for feature films, internet series & pilots.

Location Los Angeles, CA - USA

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