"I went to college in Coleg Menai but came back to NW Wales for love! My husband lives here, but it really is the kind of place that draws you back anyway. It's a great place to live, I really enjoy it here.

I've only been with the band for six months and I'm just beginning to learn the percussion properly. Ceri from the band, who's also in Bangor Samba, is teaching me - I'm learning as I go along.

I'm half Nigerian, so I've brought in my influences from songs I used to sing at boarding school in Nigeria. If anyone hears anything African they really like they'll email it to me or bring in a CD for me to have a look at. We're all really supportive of each other's influences.

It's a seven-piece, percussion-led Latin groove band. We do a lot of African and South American influenced pieces with loads of percussion - we've got bongos, three singers and two saxophonists, so there's a nice mix and medley of things that come up to make our style. It's easy listening, a bit of reggae, slow rock, really fun.

We only practise once a week and it can be a bit touch and go. There was one time when we hadn't all been together in one room for three months - we've got a life and sometimes schedules get in the way, but when we do get together to play we all click and it's really nice.

We perform mostly covers - some you may have heard of like 'I'm going to send you to outer space...'. It was remixed and called 'Take it to another dimension', but we do the acoustic version which is slower, not technically based at all.

We do lots of charity gigs and we're going to play Caban in Brynrefail in the summer. It's a great place - there's a café there with organic food and it has big windows looking over the woods, with a real Moroccan feel. It's only just started opening in the evenings and although it's a bit out of the way I think it's going to be great there.

Apart from that, there's a lack of venues in this area. Hendre Hall [Tal y Bont, Bangor] seems to be the only place that promotes live music on a grander scale. Snogfest is great - anyone can come and pick up a guitar and have a bit of a jam, no one's paying you and no one's judging you."