"HEALER SELECTA HAS MADE LONDON SWING AGAIN"
By Will Hodgkinson (MOJO Music Magazine England)
HEALER SELECTA, Guitarman, Artist, Disc Jockey, Composer, Record Producer, Arranger, Records collector, Promoter-Show Producer.
Yvan started young. At the age of 10 his father, cross that Yvan was
listening to music rather than doing his schoolwork, broke all his records. Such a
traumatic experience tightened his resolve to dedicate his life to them. A year
later he was running his own radio show in his home town,
digging the rebellious sounds of Gene Vincent and Bo Diddley and learning to
play guitar over 45s by Link Wray, Magic Sam and Dick Dale. By 18 he was putting on parties in the catacombs of Limoges, France, squaring up to the local police and grooving to whatever hidden gems he dug out of the record boxes of depot vents across
France.
It was at London's legendary late 90s rocknroll-Burlesque night The Frat Shack at the 333 in Shoreditch and The Las Vegas Grind Festival in Vegas, where Yvan was a resident DJ when he discovered the power that being free can have. Having played guitar in rock'n'roll bands, The Blue Devils, Showman & The
Thunderous Staccatos and The Sidekick, Yvan was firmly entrenched in the live rocking scene, but his musical tastes had always been broad. So he spun garage rock back to back with soul, rocksteady, afrobeat, samba and rhythm & blues, Manbo, Surf, etc... The purist scenesters were confused but the music lovers went wild. The way forward was clear from then on.
HEALER SELECTA HAS MADE LONDON SWING AGAIN ! For the last five
years he and his music-loving beau Crystal have put on the RAISON D'ETRE
parties and Reason2b International Music & Art Lovers Collective, where Londons international community of artists and musicians have got
together to celebrate cosmopolitanism, humanism, and musicism.
Since 2006, the official "Godmother" of Healer Selecta's parties and Raison D'Etre Collective is SPANKY WILSON, the 60's Soul Diva Queen legend and the "Godfather" is BO DIDDLEY, the greatest and most influential Rock & Roll king of all time.
"MUSIC IS NOT A PRODUCT, IT IS A WAY TO LIVE, IT IS OUR SCHOOL, OUR STREET, OUR CULTURE, OUR HISTORY, OUR RELIGION, OUR FAMILY, OUR LIFE, IT" MY LIFE, SO KEEP FIGHTING FOR YOUR MUSICAL RIGHT" xxx Healer Selecta.