Mohamed Noor bin Syed Yakob

PERCUSSIONIST/DRUMMER/VOCALIST

Growing up in a multi-talented musical family , Mohamed Noor began his music career playing the percussion at the age of 5 at The Victoria Theater. Since 1976, Mohamed has performed in numerous Radio and Television Indian programmes. At the age of 9, he performed in a "Concert For The Young" organized by the Ministry of Culture held at the Singapore National Library Lecture Hall on the 3rd of January 1976. Besides playing musical instruments Mohamed Noor also enjoys singing. He started singing at the age of 5 and by the age of 21, had participated in several competitions and received many awards.

Mohamed Noor has been actively singing on TV for a number of Indian variety and stage shows. Since then he has had the opportunity to sing on two local best-selling Indian albums , titled "Breakthrough" 1992 and "Karuppayee", released in 1994.

Though he was solely trained to play Indian percussion, his desire and the love for music has somehow inspired him to play a greater variety of percussion instruments. Today, Mohamed Noor plays more than 25 over percussion instruments from around the World.
This has given Mohamed Noor the extra edge of being known as a versatile percussionist and drummer around Asia.

Mohamed has performed in many music festivals including the ASEAN Jazz Festival(Malaysia), Heineken Jazz Festival(Singapore), Big Bang Percussion Festival(London) , Singapore Arts Festival, Penang Jazz, Seoul Jazz and many more around the world.
Mohamed has work with great international musicians like “the Gypsy Kings. Randy Crawford, Eric Mariental , Kailesh (India), Anne Veerapas, Rani Singam , Shiela Majid, Casey, David Bowie, Robbie Williams, Gorillaz, Ramli Sarip, Jacky Cheung , Jeremy Monteiro and also drummers , Alex Acuna, Dennis Chambers, Lewis Pragasam , JR Robinson , Akira Jumbo, Manu Katche of “Sting” and the list goes on....

Mohamed has also recorded with many International musicians in their album.

Mohamed was a featured percussionist among the world’s top 11 drummers at the Singapore Drumfest 2007.

With a wealth of musical experience, Mohamed has become the choice drummer/percussionist for recording sessions and many Asian and international touring artists.

In addition, Mohamed Noor is an active founding member of Singapore’s Premiere World music Band “Tribal Tide” promoting percussions in Singapore and around the Region.
Tribal Tide has performed in various festivals around Asia and has gain great recognition in the Music scene both locally and internationally.

Currently, Mohamed is on tour with Taiwanese Artiste “David Tao, Wang Lee Hom and Singapore Artiste “J.J”.