Derkoi

Who is Derkoi?

Derkoi is a musician from Kingston upon Hull, England real name Steve Cawood who is also an award winning filmmaker & visual effects artist, born in Kingston upon Hull on 18 February 1977.

Steve started playing the guitar after seeing the band Oasis's Live By The Sea concert on TV and decided if they could play guitar so could he. First he started playing left handed but after shopping around for an electric guitar decided to learn right handed as there was more choice.

Over the years Steve wrote & recorded music on a Yamaha MT4X 4-track recorder and mastered onto Minidisc before making the switch to a DAW, Cakewalk Sonar. He recorded his first album on the 4-Track recorder whilst living at the East Riding of Yorkshire seaside town of Withernsea. He called the collection of metal songs "Collective Unconscious" and named himself "Dividend", originally only on cassette tape, he distributed the album around family & friends & later remastered the original Minidisc masters to CD.