The South African producer Harold Galeta—better known to his fans as SKinniez—was only a few years into his career when he joined Kamasi Washington on stage at the 2017 Cape Town Jazz Festival to play the drum set…with his fingers. “It was a meet and greet,” Galeta recalls. “They were asking people in the audience who could play the drums, so I put my hand up and Kamasi says, ‘You, come to the stage!’” There was, unfortunately, a complication: “I didn’t have sticks with me!” he laughs. “I ended up using my fingers to play with the drumset. At the very last minute, when the song is really going off, somebody runs to the stage and hands me drumsticks. I’m like ‘Guys, come on.’”
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