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Yonnet is considered a world-renowned, urban jazz harmonicist, known for incorporating the instrument into unexpected genres such as R&B, funk, gospel and hip-hop.
“I’ve also developed several techniques that allow me to morph the harmonica into sounds that are very close to a violin or guitar, a human voice and sometimes a piano,” says Yonnet, whoOriginally from France, Yonnet moved to DC “for love” in 2001, he says. His wife, Carla Sims, works as a communications professional in the entertainment business. Through her, he became close friends with Dave Chappelle, who later introduced Yonnet to Stevie Wonder.
“I think Robertson and Scorsese realized that the sound of a plucking, upright bass with my harmonica lingering behind it and sometimes in front of it—sometimes sneaky, sometimes screaming—was ideal to highlight when the spirit of greed was coming back into play,” says Yonnet, who saw the film for the first time during its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival last spring.
While New York or Los Angeles might seem more attractive to someone so steeped in the entertainment industry, Yonnet prefers to stay in DC. Musically, “there’s just something about the DC sound that, to my ears, is always a notch above the other markets,” says Yonnet, who’s built a close-knit community in Washington., in which he and his band would play from the windows of a gutted house he and his wife were renovating.
Until then, Yonnet is focused on finishing up a new album he plans to release later this year. “If you follow my social media, you will definitely hear about it,” he says.Ten Years Ago, the “Sad Zoo Kid” Photo Became an Emblem of the 2013 Government Shutdown. Here’s the Story Behind It.How the Edmund Burke Shooting Inspired a New Song by DC Band Light Beams
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