Highland Park Profiles
19-Year-Old Gospel Drummer Wins Highland Park Drum Off
Henry McDaniel got his first drum set when he was three and has been practicing ever since.
Henry McDaniel was not quite two years old when his mother suspected he would become a drummer. Lots of kids beat on pots and pans, but Lynette Wright said one day she found her toddler Henry keeping a meticulous beat on a large upside-down Garrett's Popcorn tin. The next Christmas, he received a three-year-old-sized drum set for Christmas, and he has been practicing every day ever since. "Every single day," said Bobby Wright, McDaniel's stepfather, his voice half awed, half weary – the kind of tone you might expect from someone who has lived more than a dozen years with a drummer under his roof. McDaniel, 19, beat out five other finalists – many older and more experienced – for the store title at the Highland Park Guitar Center Drum Off …
Oluwatobiloba
12:37 pm on Sunday, December 26, 2010
I realise dat learning/practising frm childhood it's a gr8 previledge tanks more ›