Background
Shlomo is of Jewish descent, with Israeli, Iraqi and German lineage. He grew up in the village of Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. He is a classically trained percussionist and a jazz drummer, learning the drums from the age of 8 years old. His father is a jazz guitarist. He began making vocal rhythms as a child as a way to practise his drums, and in his teens discovered that others practised the art of human beatboxing. He is fluent in both Hebrew and Arabic.
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