Muruga

Muruga Booker (born Steven Bookvich, 1942, Highland Park, Michigan) is an American drummer and percussionist. He started out in Detroit in the early 1960s, played at Woodstock in 1969 and recorded with Weather Report in the 1970s. He has led bands across jazz, funk and world music, and invented the nada drum, a variant of the talking drum. Booker backed Brenda Lee with The Casuals and joined the Paul Winter Consort in 1968. At Woodstock he drummed for Tim Hardin and met Swami Satchidananda, who later gave him the name Muruga.