David Getz was born January 24, 1940 and raised in Brooklyn N.Y. As a child he showed an exceptional talent in both music and art. His first passions, starting somewhere in early adolescence, were drawing and copying comic book art and studying Native American culture, particularly the tribes of the Great Plains. Between the ages of 11 and 13 he made an entire Plain’s Indian costume from authentic designs and materials and eventually joined an Indian dance troupe called The Heyoka Indian Dancers. It was in this group that he discovered his natural affinity for rhythm and percussion, playing the hoop-drum for the dancers.