Sri Lankan born American bassist
Hussain Jiffry is a Sri Lankan born American bassist who performed on Herb Alpert’s album ‘’Steppin’ Out’’, which won Best Pop Instrumental Album Award at the 56th Grammy Awards in 2014.[1]
Education-Wesley college colombo
Jiffry started his music career while
studying at Wesley College, Colombo.
The first band he joined was Cats Eye
fronted by fellow schoolmate Kamal
Addararachchi. Later he joined
Charade, then formed his own band
Stratus co-led by Shiraaz Nooramith on
drums and featuring Marino De Silva
and Adrian De Silva. He later played for
Noeline & Galaxy and while playing
bass for Galaxy, was asked to join Fame led by Sheridan Lye to be their keyboard
player and tour Europe. Three years later
Jiffry joined Grace as their bass player,
while the band was doing a stint in
Switzerland.
Jiffry later moved to the US to study
music at the Musicians Institute in
Hollywood. After he graduated, he
decided to settle down in Los Angeles
and got the opportunity to perform and
record with celebrity artists such as
Whitney Houston, Dionne Warwick,
Michael Bolton, Bobby Brown, Captain
& Tennille, Chaka Khan, Crystal Gayle,
Carol King, Sergio Mendes, Yanni and
many more. In recent years he has been touring with the legendary Herb Alpert.
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