Singer Pianist and Bandleader
Daniel is a crossover artist, singer, songwriter, jazz pianist, classical pianist, accompanist, musical director, spoken word poet, comedian, events organiser, teacher and producer.
As a pianist-singer entertainer, he has performed at The Ritz, The Ivy, The Savoy The Dorchester, The Wellsley, The Hilton, Home House, Troubador, Ronnie Scotts and many other prime London music venues, both solo as a pianist/singer and with his band – The London Swing and Soul Band www.thelondonswingband.co.uk
Daniel has also been Musical Director, Bandleader and Principle Resident musician at Caffe Concerto, RAC Club, Bar 48, The Savoy, Cafe 1001 and the Phoenix Arts Club. Daniel has an extremely wide repertoire of songs spanning 1920 to 2020, so regularly entertains guests with requests. As a traveller and student of languages, he also sings in a dozen languages, including Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Japanese, Arabic and Russian.
Daniel is happiest when playing with bass and drum in piano trio form, and even happier when being accompanied by an amazing jazz sax or trumpet player.
While not a full time impersonator, Daniel occasionally likes to try and mimic other artists, and in this video (produced around the start of lockdown 2020), an attempt at impersonating or covering 60 different singers was made.
As a solo piano bar entertainer at parties, cocktail bars, weddings, singalongs and special events, Daniel has also been invited to play at Fringe venues at Festivals.
Piano Bar at Bestival Festival, Isle of Wight.
Originally from London, Daniel started his musical journey in his 20s whilst living and working in Switzerland. Developing as a Jazz Pianist and Blues singer (separately), Daniel studied jazz at EJMA and toured as a singer with a number of Swiss bands who performed regularly at Blues, Jazz and Rock festivals in France, Switzerland, Germany and Italy. Alongside a passion for Jazz and Blues, Daniel’s operatic and musical theatre styles have seen him perform on a variety of stages across the UK and Europe where he has performed as Elvis (London, Geneva, Switzerland), Freddie Mercury (Frankfurt, Germany) and as a lead Italian tenor opera singer in a London production of “Lend me a Tenor”.
As a consequence of lockdown, Daniel became inspired to produce his long awaited songs and scribbles, starting with a song that came straight from the heart about the talented and galliant NHS workers … 1st April 2020 – Real Angels was written in 30 minutes, straight from the heart.
Daniel’s songwriting journey started when encountering Muriel Dubuis, head of Jazz vocals at EJMA, school of modern Jazz in Lausanne Switzerland. Together they wrote an album of 12 songs which saw radio play in over 20 countries.
Original Song written with French/Swiss artist, Muriel Dubuis “In Your Time” – produced by Israeli guitarist, arranger, engineer and producer Lior Havkin
At the beginning of Lockdown, Daniel became a self-proclaimed “Alternative Key Worker” – a song for information, entertainment and teaching purposes.
Daniel performing as a singer with Jazz Quintet