Cuerdas de BORINQUEN has been a well sought after instrumental group for the past decade with over 40 years in the music business. The band leader,  Tony Perez has managed to bring together the Tropical Sounds of the Island of Puerto Rico into a 4 piece musical group of talented musicians to satisfy the musical taste of the listener without having to fly out to the Island. Bring this Tropical Sound to your Event... and make it memorable.

Kingsley Ibeneche is fresh on the Philly music scene, but is no stranger to the stage. Trained in dance, Kingsley received a degree in Ballet Performance from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Kingsley was born and raised in Camden, NJ to parents originally from Nigeria. Living in Germany is where Kingsley realized how deeply he wanted to pursue singing and songwriting.

“Finding an identity in the storytelling aspect of traditional folk, Driftwood Solider infuse everything from the blues to the punk music of their adolescence, expressed through Lyman-Schmidt’s mandolin and Szafranski’s melodic bass stylings and junk percussion—a suitcase, a license plate snare, and “the Jangler,” a bottle cap tambourine contraption. Their instrumentation combined with Lyman-Schmidt’s Nick Cave-esque jarring baritone growls produce a uniquely rootsy sound.”