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BORN in New York in 1955 of African-American and Polish parentage, Marilyn Mazur’s family moved to Denmark when she was six.
As a child she danced and learned piano but when she was 19, inspired by Al Foster, Airto Moreira and the Danish drummer Alex Riel, she took up the she drums and formed her first band, Zirenes, in 1973.
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