Video (1min 4sec): David Darling "Find Your Groove". Grammy-nominated David Darling is an internationally acclaimed cellist and the cofounder and artistic director of Music for People, a nonprofit organization that promotes self-expression through music and improvisation. MFP was founded on the belief that music is a natural creative expression available to everyone. An alumnus of the Paul Winter Consort, with which he performed throughout the 1970s, Darling later formed the band Radiance with other Consort alumni.
Darling developed his style in part through his use of a solid-bodied, eight-string electric cello and introduced electronic effects into his playing with the use of an echoplex and other devices. Although he turned increasingly to classical composition after 1978, he played with Spiro Gyra in 1980. The following year he formed the band Gallery and recorded with Glen Moore and Ralph Towner. He later worked in a duo with Terje Rypdal. Darling does not label his sound as New Age but describes it as music "that doesn't have the busyness of progressive jazz, that has a meditative quality."
Born in Elkhart, Indiana, Darling studied cello and music education at Indiana University, from which he graduated in 1965. He taught for four years before joining the Paul Winter Consort.
