David Lyttle
| David Lyttle | |
|---|---|
| Born |
21 June 1984 Waringstown, Northern Ireland |
| Genres | Jazz, soul, hip hop, folk |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, songwriter, producer, label owner |
| Instruments | Drums, bass, keyboards |
| Labels | Lyte |
| Associated acts | Joe Lovano, Talib Kweli, Soweto Kinch, Duke Special, Andreas Varady, Jason Rebello, Jean Toussaint, Louis Stewart |
| Website | www |
David Lyttle (born 21 June 1984) is a musician, songwriter, producer, composer, and record label owner from Northern Ireland. He has released three solo albums and received nominations in the MOBO Awards and Urban Music Awards.
Born in Waringstown, he began his professional career under the direction of his parents as a child performer with the Lyttle Family. In his teens he was active as a drummer, DJ and also studied classical cello. Since the age of eighteen, Lyttle has been active mostly as a drummer, songwriter and producer. He earned a PhD in musicology from the University of Ulster in 2009.
Lyttle began performing professionally at age four, playing percussion with the Lyttle Family in Ireland and, when he was a teenager, the United States. In 2007, following studies at the University of Ulster, Skidmore Jazz Institute, New York, and the Banff Centre, Canada, he reached a national audience as an Irish jazz performer with Louis Stewart. He released his debut solo album True Story later in 2007 and began featuring prominent international jazz artists in his touring groups, including Greg Osby,Jean Toussaint, Terell Stafford and Soweto Kinch, whose band he occasionally appears in.
From 2008 to 2010 Lyttle composed a series of literary-inspired suites. A Christmas Carol, inspired by the Charles Dickens novel, premiered in 2008 and toured Ireland in 2009.Dark Tales, which was inspired by the works of Charles Dickens, Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Louis Stevenson, premiered at Belfast's Ulster Hall also in 2009, and subsequently toured Ireland and Great Britain in 2010. In 2011 he was commissioned by Peace Three and Jews Schmooze to write The Chronicles Suite, which was inspired primarily by CS Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia.
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