kurtbriggsschindler

Christiansted, St. Croix, USVI

Kurt Briggs Schindler, Born and raised on the island of St. Croix, is a Carribean singer-songwriter- performer who is considered a local musical icon. Known for his live looping, which is technology that allows you to record your instruments live and layer them to sound like a band. He creates his own unique style that draws from reggae, soca, latin jazz, rock and flamenco in his compositions. In 1995 he was founding member of the group “Grass Child Gypsy”, a Northern California Jam band and he would forge a distinctive songwriting and musical style that would be influenced from Carribean childhood and years in Northern Cali. In 1998 he became interested in the musical style Flamenco which is now a large underlying influence in his studio and live compositions. Also founding member of the group “The Drunk Dumplins” created in 2007. It has gone through numerous phases but was well known as a Spanish guitar world fusion group releasing one album "Marisol y Los Drunk Dumplins" Al