Kevin Raczka

Kevin Raczka is the drummer for Antibalas, the Brooklyn Afrobeat band, and plays in ARMO, a six piece group that grew out of the Antibalas circle around trumpeter Jordan McLean and singer Amayo. ARMO released a self titled 10 inch EP on System Dialing Records in 2018, built on original music by McLean and Amayo alongside the repertoire of Fela Kuti. Away from Afrobeat he has worked as a studio and touring drummer in soul and roots settings, with credits including Lee Fields and The Expressions, Charles Bradley and The Extraordinaries, and Valerie June. He was born in 1978 in Buffalo, New York, played clarinet before settling on drums, and earned a BFA in jazz studies from Purchase College, SUNY in 2003.