Inder Goldfinger
Inspired by Sacred Music Inder trained under the guidance of Tabla Maestro Pandit Manik-Rao Popatkar. Championed by City of Leeds college of Music's Roy Warmsley trained in tuned percussion with a keen ear in popular and world music.
Appearances
Instigated and performed with Agit Hip Hop band Fun-Da-Mental, who gained success to be signed as the first Asian band to Beggers banquet records (90's fame).
Through Nation Records Recorded and performed and featured with: Transglobal Underground, Loop Guru, Naomi Campbell, Natacha Atlas, Ian Brown (Stone Roses), Rowetta Satchell (Happy Mondays), Noel Gallagher (Oasis), Nitin Swaney, Bat for Lashes, Bomb The Bass, Annie Lennox, Dodgy, Chacka Demus and Pliars, Sugar Hill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Peter Hook's Hacienda Classical and Winachi.
Perfomed and recorded on Brad Pitt & Angelina Jolie's 'A Mighty Heart' Film score (Theme & Incidentals)
Accompanied international Poets and word-smiths Benjamin Zephaniah, Lemm Sissay, Jean 'Binta' Breeze and Salima Hashmi of 'Faiz' Ahmed Faiz fame.
Cultural Workshop leader and demonstrator for Alchemy 'Love Beyond Measure' and 'Black waters' heritage project with Pheonix dance company. Created and devised many projects for In-set days form schools colleges and Music institutions.
Produced shows on behalf of Manchester International Festival and Bradford Literature Festival for 'Sufiyana Mehfil' with Harshdeep Kaur, Abida Parveen, Nahid Siddiqui and Ustad Harbhajan Singh.
Attained Gold disk standard across Eleven Music Album's (Ian Brown), and a music library of live percussion endorsed by Hans Zimmer through Spitfire Audio.
Winner of International Singer songwriter award (ISSA) 2022 and co-writer and performer of opening sequence for the Spectacular Leeds 2023 city of culture.