Stamina MC is a stage name of drum & bass MC and vocalist Linden Reeves. Stamina MC used both rapping and vocalizing.

Biography

His earliest experiences of MCing were on pirate radio in 1996; first Pressure FM (inactive), then on to currently active, once-pirate-but-no-longer station Rinse FM

Rinse FM

Rinse FM is a London-based community radio station, licensed for "young people living and/or working within the central,east and south London areas.". The station plays grime, dubstep, UK garage, funky, drum and bass and other genres....

. In 2000, he met DJ Marky

DJ Marky

Marco Antonio Silva a.k.a. DJ Marky is a Brazilian drum and bass DJ.Together with DJ Patife, XRS Land and Drumagick, Brazilians were forging a new sound in drum and bass that became popular around the world with releases such as LK and Só Tinha Que Ser Com Você.-Career:He was brought to the...

, DJ Patife

DJ Patife

Wagner Borges Ribeiro de Souza , better known by his stage name DJ Patife, is a prominent Brazilian drum and bass DJ....

 and XRS Land, through being given a trial opportunity to perform at Movement, a weekly drum & bass event in London

London

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He is best known for providing vocals for two successful Drum & Bass tracks entitled "LK" by DJ Marky and XRS Land (released July 8th 2002 on V Recordings

V Recordings

V Recordings is a drum and bass record label, based in London. Started by DJs Bryan Gee and Jumping Jack Frost, V Recordings is one of the longest-running Drum and Bass imprints, with a large catalogue of releases stretching back to 1993...

) and "Barcelona" by D. Kay

D.Kay

D.Kay aka David Kulenkampff is a drum and bass producer.In 2001 D.Kay came together with Rawfull to form Ill.Skillz. Tracks from D.Kay were released on Soul:R, Bingo, Hospital and Renegade Hardware, and he has worked with Kasra, Marcus Intalex and Black Sun Empire...

 and Epsilon (released Aug 11th 2003 on BC Authorised/BMG). These tracks achieved UK chart positions of #17 and #14 respectively. Videos for both tracks can be found on YouTube.

He was also part of the original line up for the London Elektricity

London Elektricity

London Elektricity is the DJ and stage name of musician Tony Colman who is best known as a recording artist of five albums, international DJ and formerly a live drum and bass act "London Elektricity Live".-History:...

 LIVE band (alongside Andy Waterworth, Jungle Drummer

Jungle Drummer

Chris Polglase , known professionally as The Jungle Drummer, is a live drum n bass drummer. He is most noted for his work with DJ Fu and live drum and bass act London Elektricity...

, Lianne Carroll, Tim Landslide

Landslide (musician)

Tim Land, better known as Landslide, is a dubstep, Broken Beat UK garage, 2-step, drum and bass, and future jazz musician , previously signed to Hospital Records, from London, England. Originally a drummer for bands, he was introduced to Tony Colman and Chris Goss through a sound engineering job...

 and Robert Owens

Robert Owens (musician)

Robert Owens is an American contemporary R&B and house-music vocalist best known for his work with the Chicago house group Fingers Inc. in the mid-1980s...

), touring the country with them and featuring on the 'Live Gravy' DVD, fillmed at the Jazz Café

Jazz Café

The Jazz Café is a music venue in Parkway in Camden Town, London, England. It opened in 1990, in the former premises of Barclays Bank, and has been run by Mean Fiddler Music Group since 1992, now a subsidiary of the MAMA Group.-History:...

 in October 2003 and released on Hospital Records

Hospital Records

Hospital Records is an independent record label based in South London. Primarily releasing Drum and bass, the label was started in 1996 by Tony Colman and Chris Goss, and has grown in recent years to become one of the most well known labels within UK dance music...

. Further live exploits came in the form of 'CPF Live' - an act put together by Craggz and Parallel Forces to support their album release on Valve Recordings entitled 'Northern Soul'.

Presently Stamina still tours with Marky, and has also in recent times garnered an affiliation with Shy FX

Shy FX

Shy FX is the pseudonym of Andre Williams, an English DJ and Producer from London. He specializes in Drum and Bass and Jungle music.-Biography:...

, performing with him and also being involved with projects on Digital Soundboy.

External links

• http://www.myspace.com/musicfromstamina
• http://www.thtc.co.uk/mc_stamina.html
• http://www.rolldabeats.com/artist/stamina_mc