Beatles, David Bowie, Prokofiev, John Coltrane, Pink Floyd, Miles Davis, Beck, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Andy Warhol, Carlos Castaneda, Patti Smith, Ralph Vaughn Williams, Kurt Weill, Charlie Parker, Hermann Hesse, Antony & the Johnsons, The Ramones, Tom Robbins, Astrud Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Jacqueline du Pre, Beatrice Wood, Bauhaus, Bjork, Bach, Outkast, Billie Holiday, Alfred Hitchcock, The Roots, Ram Dass, Chemical Brothers, Josephine Baker, Bob Dylan, Richard Brautigan, Brian Eno, Arvo Part, Beethoven, Johnny Cash, David J, Ella Fitzgerald, Federico Fellini, Sarah Vaughn, Hank Williams, Bessie Smith, Kate Bush, Kraftwerk, Zora Neal Hurston, Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters, Patsy Cline, Mott the Hoople, Fela Kuti, Stanley Kubrick, Paul Robeson, Low, Henry Miller, Natasha Atlas, Massive Attack, Portishead, Ken Russell, Tricky, The Residents, David Darling, Dead Can Dance, Anais Nin, DJ Shadow, David Lynch, Grace Jones, MC 900 Foot Jesus, Dresden Dolls, Sammy Davis Jr., Richard Thompson, Hesperion XX /XXI, Kronos Quartet, Me'shelle Ndegeocello, Angela Davis, Mercury Rev, Wim Wenders, The Flaming Lips, Frank Sinatra, Nina Simone...
Joyce Rooks began playing cello at the age of 12 studying privately and performing with various youth orchestras and ensembles until the age of 18 at which time her musical career took a different turn. While not able to continue a formal music education, her informal music studies began. A child of rhythm and blues, jazz and rock & roll, as well as other musical influences, at the urging of friends she began playing jam sessions with guitars and other instruments. Along with cello, Joyce also played guitar and sang in various bands over the years. These ranged from an all-female punk rock band (The Dinettes) to ska (the Trowsers) to New Wave (the Penetrators.) With the advent of digital technology and better cello pick-ups, her cello has been electrified and treated with effects to help bring the instrument to an ever-widening range of venues. She has performed and recorded locally in San Diego, Los Angeles, across the U.S. and in Europe with artists such as David J (of Bauhaus and Love & Rockets), folk-pop chanteuse Cindy Lee Berryhill, The Beat Farmers, The Black Heart Procession, Hal Wilner’s Edgar Allen Poe Project and many others. Besides being a cellist, Joyce has worked in art and music for the past 30 years as a potter and teacher, a record store employee, (Tower Records, R.I.P.) and a major label marketing rep (good experience, regular paycheck and benefits but soul crushing!)
In her current dual life Joyce also works in glass, mostly as a glass beadmaker but she continues to learn other glass working techniques such as fusing, casting and blowing. Her glass and jewelry work can be viewed on her website, www.joycerooks.com and for sale at www.torchsong.etsy.com
Joyce is available for studio sessions, receptions, art parties and touring.
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You were indeed, and always, a "friend." Just had a major myspace music glitch some time ago and lost most of the pals we had here. Starting almost over from scratch. LOVE YOU, always, Ms. Joyce. Mike (for "Cocktail")
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