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David Hotep Middleton

Born: January 22

From North America's west coast to the east, across Western and Eastern Europe, thru the Tuvan steppes of Siberian Mongolia to the Fuji Mountains of Japan, D.mHotep has traveled across the northern hemisphere [and into Brazil] for the past decade: observing, hearing, performing, and learning music of the human earth. After picking up the guitar rather late in high school, and then leaving behind a career in architectural design, intense self- initiative and excellent private teachers such as Curtis Harmon Sr., Steve Giordano, Myrtle Young, Robert Kenyatta, Marshall Allen, and [Dennis Sandole students] Glenn Wallace and Pat Martino have helped to hone his jazz/music theory and guitar performance skills. In his first professional experience, he functioned as an integral member of the legendary DJ Tat Money's Halfro Productions team – playing both bass and guitar, contracting musicians, and even appearing in an MTV/BET broadcasted video with the hip-hop group EBS — one of the acts produced by the company. In the early 1990s, he co-founded the music ensemble JazGuardian with Philadelphia drummer Kimpedro