DOSH Live in Faribault

Martin Luther King Chavez Dosh was born in Los Angeles but has spent most of his life in Minneapolis. Both his parents were initially called to careers in the church: his father was a priest when he met Martin’s mother, who was training to be a nun. As a teenager, Dosh studied jazz and drums in Massachusetts at Simon’s Rock for two years, and after graduating from SUNY New Paltz, gigging ferociously around the Northeast with his band Como Zoo, returned in his mid-twenties to the Twin Cities.

There, he fell in with a scene of players variously or equally interested in hip-hop, jazz, electronica, funk, ambient music, R&B and rock. His debut solo album was released to acclaim in 2003.

A longtime mainstay of the Twin Cities indie music scene (a former member of Lateduster, Fog and The Cloak Ox among others), Martin Dosh now performs primarily solo. He is a percussionist at heart, but moves between multiple instruments both on recordings and in live settings, and accomplishes a rich, layered sound by looping himself. His music and influence are felt far and wide both here in the Twin Cities and nationally as well. He always sets out to make something he’s never heard before.