d'EASTON TRIO 2 d'EASTON RITMO
In 1998, I started my own band, d'easton trio, with my younger brother, Sahlan, on rhythm and a school friend, Roslan, on bass. We managed to clinch gigs playing at occasions but I was not satisfied with our vocal harmony. As time goes by , I realized that there is no improvement as a trio. I began to concentrate the singing only with Sahlan, we changed the name to d'Easton Ritmo. In Aug 2001, Roslan got married and has been quite tied up with his new life. So we started to perform as duo.

Currently we are very happy that some very talented musicians like, percussionists are able to join us for some of our shows.


1998 d'Easton Trio 2001-d'Easton Ritmo

THE LANGUAGE
As we're not Hispanic or latino chico, we get people coming up and asked if we actually sing correctly or do we just "han tam" (meaning just shoot - in malay). As a matter of fact, we do sing in spanish or catalan in the case of the gipsy kings numbers. I've attended some spanish language class in 2001/2002 and had 2 great teachers - Ms Ana Bonilla (who has since gone back to Mexico) and Ms Arantxa. Thank you to them for giving me more confidence in my spanish singing ;-) "Khairi con d'Easton Ritmo" by the way means "Khairi with d'Easton Ritmo" Now, other than Spanish, we've included in our repertoire a few other languages/dialects too, like Mandarin, Hindi, Tagalog, Malay, Italian, Thai, Korean, Japanese, French, Hokkien, Cantonese. I'm currently learning a German song ;-) All of which have melodies that i really love ;-) Now I truly understand what my primary school teacher used to tell us " Music is an international language" and I'm sure glad that I get to know this language.

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