Christian Tanna is a Canadian drummer and music event organizer based in
Peterborough, Ontario
Peterborough ( ) is a city on the Otonabee River in Ontario, Canada, about 125 kilometres (78 miles) northeast of Toronto. According to the 2021 Census, the population of the City of Peterborough was 83,651. The population of the Peterborough ...
. He is best known for being a co-founding member and drummer for the band
I Mother Earth.
Early life
Tanna was born Christian Koshowski in
Hamilton, Ontario
Hamilton is a port city in the Canadian Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Ontario. Hamilton has a 2021 Canadian census, population of 569,353 (2021), and its Census Metropolitan Area, census metropolitan area, which encompasses ...
. His family moved to Peterborough when he was in elementary school. Tanna began playing drums in high school.
Career
Tanna, along with his brother,
Jagori Tanna
Jagori Tanna (born ''Jagori Andrew Koshowski'', in Hamilton, Ontario) is a Canadian musician. Together with his brother, Christian Tanna, he formed I Mother Earth around 1990. He wrote all of I Mother Earth's music, and produced most of it as w ...
, and vocalist Edwin, formed I Mother Earth in 1990. Tanna played on 1993's ''
Dig''; in 1994 the band won a Juno Award for Best Rock Album.
Tanna also drummed on the band's 1996's double platinum album ''
Scenery and Fish'',
1999's ''
Blue Green Orange'', and 2003's ''
The Quicksilver Meat Dream''. He wrote all of I Mother Earth's lyrics.
After I Mother Earth broke up in 2004, Tanna created and organized Blue Sky Revival, an event to support
Earth Day
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, in
Toronto
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on 22 April 2005. He took over management duties for the band
dodger, and also worked as a manager at the record label UpperLeftSide Music. Tanna also drummed in ex-I Mother Earth bandmate
Brian Byrne
Brian Byrne (born January 13, 1975) is a Canadian singer and songwriter. He was the second vocalist for the band I Mother Earth.
Biography
Brian joined his first band in Corner Brook in 1988, a Glam metal, hair-metal band called Pandemonium. ...
's band in 2008.
Tanna worked as the event planner for the Park Playhouse in Cobourg, Ontario. He also drummed for the indie band the Flaming Hoops, and in 2010 became the general manager of The Venue, a concert and events venue in Peterborough, Ontario.
Tanna and the rest of the final I Mother Earth lineup reunited in 2012 to play several live performances at venues across Canada and release a new song. They continued to perform together from time to time, and in 2016 came together with their former lead singer, Edwin, to tour with Our Lady Peace and Finger Eleven. Also that year, Tanna became the event manager for the Oshawa Music Hall.
Tanna continued to tour with I Mother Earth, including a performance in St. John's, Newfoundland in 2018.
In October 2022, Tanna joined
Oshawa
Oshawa is a city in Ontario, Canada, on the Lake Ontario shoreline. It lies in Southern Ontario, approximately east of downtown Toronto. It is commonly viewed as the eastern anchor of the Greater Toronto Area and of the Golden Horseshoe. It ...
radio station
CKGE-FM as host of ''Generation Next Radio'', its program devoted to new and emerging rock musicians.
[Connie Thiessen]
"I Mother Earth drummer Christian Tanna joins 94.9 The Rock"
''Broadcast Dialogue'', 26 October 2022.
From April–May 2023, Tanna did a drum clinic tour across multiple "Long and Mcquade" music stores in British Columbia and Ontario, where he performed songs, shared stories from his career and being on tour, and answered fan questions.
Tanna has been an endorser of
Mapex Drums since 2012, and for
Scenery and Fish and onwards, primarily used and continues to use (as of 2023), a famous
Ludwig Drums
Ludwig Drums is a United States musical instrument manufacturer, focused on percussion instruments, percussion. It is a subsidiary of Conn-Selmer.
Products manufactured by Ludwig include timpani, drum kits, and drum hardware. The company also ...
"Black Beauty" snare drum for most of I Mother Earth’s material and tours.
References
External links
Christian Tanna's Labeldodger's Official WebsiteI Mother Earth website
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Canadian male drummers
Canadian male songwriters
Canadian alternative rock drummers
Musicians from Hamilton, Ontario
I Mother Earth members
20th-century Canadian drummers
20th-century Canadian male musicians
Canadian radio hosts