Bass player and composer Chris Minh Doky was born into a musical family, the son of a Danish mother and a Vietnamese father. His mother was a former pop singer, and his father a classical pianist and doctor. Doky's father taught him to play classical piano at the age of just six, but it was more or less chance that led him to take up electric bass in secondary school. The Miles Davis LP 'My Funny Valentine' became an eye-opener for young Doky, and gave him a serious interest in jazz. At seventeen he swapped his electric bass for the acoustic variety, and quickly became a sought-after bassist on the Copenhagen jazz scene before moving to New York at the age of eighteen. In New York, Chris Minh Doky played in various clubs and studios with other young hopeful musicians, but his real breakthrough came when the guitarist Mike Stern invited him to join his band. Since then, Doky has played with such well-known names as David Sanborn, Michel Camillo and Michael Brecker. In 1994 Chris Minh Doky joined forces with his elder brother, the jazz pianist Niels Lan Doky, to form the Doky Brothers.  Over time, Chris Minh Doky has developed his own personal style, a warm and melodic style of bass playing with strong roots in an experimental mixture of traditional jazz, funk and a lyrical Scandinavian undertone, the latter strongly influenced by the bassist Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen. He has even flirted with popular rock classics by the likes of Prince and Jimi Hendrix since being contacted by the Danish singer Sanne Salomonsen following the release of his popular solo CD, 'Minh', in 1998. The collaboration resulted in the CD 'In A New York Minute', which won a Danish Music Award. In 2006, Chris Minh Doky released 'The Nomad Diaries', in which he embraced electronic music. By Tine Godsk Hansen Published 2007 This article is provided in cooperation with DR - www.dr.dk/musik/  Læs profilen på dansk på DR's musikside

Chris Minh Doky was born 7 February 1969 Latest release: The Nomad Diaries (2006) Other releases: Cinematique (2003) Minh (1998) Appreciation (1989) More information and discography at www.doky.com