Patrick grew up in rural Ontario, Canada with an immense passion for music, nourished by a free-form exploration of sound and rhythm. As a child, he would sit in awe with his grandfather playing stride piano and singing old French-Canadian songs, rhythms flowing with spoons in his little hands. Growing up, Patrick would spend his days drumming with the styles of Funk, Jazz & Blues, as well as composing melodies and songs on piano and any other instrument he could get his hands on. From an early age, the process of creating healing vibrations through sound was something very important to him, as composing and improvising music was often an outlet and environment for him to explore expression, introspection, and the beginning of his relationship to music as a spiritual experience, as found in the traditions of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Sufism.
At 17, Patrick attended Berklee College of Music, where he received a full scholarship studying Drumset Performance & Jazz Composition. It was at Berklee that Patrick began to broaden and refine his craft as a musician and composer, collaborating with hundreds of fellow student and faculty projects alike, while exploring his fascination with the diverse traditional music from around the world. Patrick fell deeply in love with traditional African drumming through playing with several Afrobeat and West African bands, namely with “Group Saloum“, where he met Lamine Touré, the bandleader and a griot percussionist from Senegal, who became Patrick’s mentor, teacher, and friend.
Patrick then traveled across the world, touring & recording with many artists and bands such as Bootsy Collins, A.R. Rahman, Alejandro Sanz, Esperanza Spalding, Lionel Loueke, Danilo Perez, Antonio Sanchez, Bakithi Kumalo, Peia, Women of the World, Hazmat Modine, Lucky Chops, and more. Throughout his travels, Patrick returned to West Africa several times to learn the traditional drumming traditions from Senegal, Benin, Togo, and Guinea.
Today, in addition to a busy schedule as an international touring drummer/percussionist, Patrick records & produces artists in the creation of their music in his recording studio. Patrick teaches weekly percussion workshops, and produces his original music, releasing one song per month until his eventual debut album release in 2025.
