Zandy Alexander, author of ten novels and a poetry compilation, is also a session keyboard player. Born in the UK, he worked first out of London, then Rome, before relocating to manage a multi-media studio in Montreal, Canada. After attending UCS school in London, where he rubbed shoulders with Ed Vulliamy (journalist, Guardian and Observer), Paul Gilroy, (scholar and professor of 'black Atlantic diasporic studies'), John Michael McKenzie, (session bass-player with Bob Dylan, David Bowie and Tina Turner), and Shayne Fontayne, (session guitarist with Sting and Bruce Springsteen), he taught English in Kenya, attended Goldsmiths University studying fine art, then chose a career in music. While in the UK he mixed with many other writers, Salley Vickers, Ian Carr (musician and writer), Brigit Barlow, Charlie Gillett, Victor Kiernan, Nicolas Gillett, Rosie Boyt and her father the painter Lucien Freud. In New York he would visit Norman Fruchter, author and film-maker, and Rashied Ali, the (2nd) percussionist of John Coltrane. From 2001 he began writing books, continued recording music, played a solo piano residency at the Stash restaurant, and also joined the writers' group of Faye Porter. In recent years his books have been discussed in the radio programs of Stanley Asher and Stuart Nulman and are on sale at many physical and online stores (occasionally under the pen-name 'Brother Xanadu'). Future plans envisage a film of his book 'Arcania', a further novel and a second poetry collection. (More information at Worldgig.com).
