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BIG NEWS! Snowboy's 15th album 'Communication' will be released on Freestyle Records at the end of September. The album features an original composition called 'Snowboy's Special' written especially for Snowboy by the King Of Latin Music - EDDIE PALMIERI!
A BRIEF HISTORY.........

SNOWBOY (real name Mark Cotgrove) is a Latin Percussionist and DJ. He has played professionally for AIRTO MOREIRA, MARK RONSON, FLACO JIMENEZ, BASIA, LISA STANSFIELD, JAMES TAYLOR QUARTET, INCOGNITO, JON LUCIEN and, of course, is a recording artist and band leader performing with his own Afro-Cuban Jazz group - SNOWBOY AND THE LATIN SECTION, a member of the all-star UK Funk group - THE SOUND STYLISTICS and also records under the pseudonym M.F.O.S. He has recently co-formed another all-star Funk Jazz band THE PERCEPTIONS (www.myspace.com/theperceptionsuk) and their debut album is released on October the 27th on Freestyle Records.

He has played all over the world from Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Croatia, Japan and Singapore, from Turkey to Scandinavia to Ireland and the US and has already played many festivals this year, in Russia, and including sold-out shows at Londons two world-famous jazz clubs - Ronnie Scotts and The Jazz Cafe. Snowboy is also a producer, a re-mixer (check his re-mixes of LISA STANSFIELD, ROY HARGROVE, COLDCUT etc.) and has done countless recording sessions, notably with most from the 'Acid Jazz' scene - J.T.Q. INCOGNITO, MOTHER EARTH, NEGROCAN, CORDUROY etc, as well as LISA STANSFIELD, BASIA and FLACO JIMENEZ.

Recently, in the Worlds market-leading Black Urban music magazine 'Blues And Soul', he was included as one of the 40 most important and influential British Black Music DJ's of the past 40 years!

Altogether, Snowboy has had 20 singles and 15 albums released on various labels, and has just finished writing a music history book 'From Jazz Funk And Fusion To Acid Jazz - The History Of The UK Jazz Dance Scene', which will appear later in 2008 by the publishing house 'Beecool'. He is now also a staff writer for 'Blues And Soul' magazine (www.bluesandsoul.com) where he has his own column and reviews Jazz and Funk music.

He has recently been featured in the books SALSA-MUSICAL HEARTBEAT OF LATIN AMERICA by Sue Steward, DANCIN' SALSA - SALSA HOTLINE JAPAN, LAST NIGHT A DJ SAVED MY LIFE and is in the WHO'S WHO OF LATIN MUSIC.

He is without doubt, the country's best known Latin percussionist and his band is probably Europe's most travelled Latin Jazz act. He sees himself in the future as recording as many albums and playing live as much as he can to continue to spread his brand of furious, hardcore Afro Cuban Jazz around the furthest reaches of the planet, and as the unofficial ambassador for the U.K's Jazz Dance scene!!