Saxophone Player Igor Babich
- Toronto, ON
- Saxophone Player
- 6 Verified Bookings
Dalendie L. said “Great performance!”
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Entertaining high-energy and startling saxophone-led production of top Rock, Pop & Disco HITS, across six decades, delivering an exciting full-band-like experience.
SaxoDance specializes in “being part of the party”! 🎷🕺 Way more exciting than a simple DJ service and way less costly than a full-band, SaxoDance promises an electrifying event that participants will remember for a long time!
SaxoDance leverages a combination of technologies to deliver a UNIQUE MULTI-SAX performance (emulates multi-vocals), that gets people to experience an authentic and exciting rendition of popular covers they all know, albeit SAX-based instead of vocals. They just love it!
Can be complemented with DJ music.
Merci à Stephan d’avoir enflammé notre soirée avec sa musique entraînante sur laquelle nous avons dansé toute la soirée! Stéphan a un généreux répertoire de chansons et les préforment tous avec entrain!
N’hésitez pas de l’inviter pour votre prochain événement, vous ne le regretterez pas!
Response from SaxoDance:
Merci beaucoup, Julie! Ça a été un réel plaisir de faire parti de votre party! :-)
Price Range: Contact for rates
Languages: English, French
Consider for a COMPLETE FULL EVENING PARTY, with LIVE SaxoDance music complemented with my DJ music.
SaxoDance electrifies dance parties with LIVE Top 40 music and entertainment. Participants are generally excited about dancing with the performer, singing along the songs they all know, and the non-dancers enjoy the show very much as well. Altogether, SaxoDance brings an experience as part of an event, not just music!
I also offer to complement the live music sets with DJ music, which allows to support a full evening of dancing till midnight or such, and/or adding ambiance music, during a dinner for example, prior to dancing!
WEDDING offers include DJ "ambiance" music during your dinner at the venue, followed by the dance party with a couple of hours of live SaxoDance music (starting with the first dance), and continued with DJ "dance" music until midnight or so to round up your memorable event!
Following a rewarding career in engineering, I (Stephan Pelletier) came back to my teenage love for playing music instruments (flute, saxophone, clarinet, classical guitar) and, since 2012, seriously focused on the most sexy music instrument 😊, the SAX🎷. I played as part of multiple local bands, as well as a well-acclaimed Foreigner tribute Canadian band (active since 2020).
As of fall 2023, I developed a new saxophone-led cover project (sax in lieu of vocals), called SaxoDance, for entertaining parties and events, which has been highly successful starting from my 7-weeks stay (Jan/Feb 2024) in Cabarete, Dominican Republic, where I played 10 gigs at beach restaurants and resort.
"For Novus, you are the best saxophone entertainer we’ve ever had, and we hope you can come soon so we can enjoy your music together again." (Fabio Nuñez Martinez, Novus restaurant manager, Dominican Republic)
From childhood, I was always passionate about music and especially ADORED those ’80s epic saxophone solos. In recent years, I discovered that popular songs played by a saxophone got people really energized and entertained, and this inspired me greatly!
I got first highly influenced by saxophonist Candy Dulfer with her famous “Lily Was Here” sax & guitar duo with Eurythmics’ Dave Stewart (my version (link hidden)). Then, I discovered an amazing Italian saxophone solo artist, Danielle Vitale, who gets crowds moving and dancing across the world with popular covers ((link hidden)), and who is the greatest inspiration for SaxoDance!
Above and beyond, I paired my engineering abilities to my saxophone playing by programming real-time harmony effects management, with a combination of technologies, so I could play multiple voices at the same time. This engineered production effectively delivers a UNIQUE real-time MULTI-SAX performance, and gets people to experience an authentic and exciting rendition of popular covers they all know, albeit sax-based instead of vocals. They just love it!
“What a fun night! Thank you! Your sound system was fantastic! Pleasure to meet you and we can’t wait for your next performance! 😁🎷❤️” (Barb McIntyre, fan)
I aim to get people off their feet and onto the dance floor! With more than 4 hours of current SaxoDance repertoire (and growing), I can do just that and I enjoy it very much! 🎷😊
DANCE
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Any way you want it - Journey
Bad Case of Loving You – Robert Palmer
Blinding Lights - The Weeknd
Born to be alive - Patrick Hernandez
Call me - Blondie
Chiquitita - ABBA
Circles - Post Malone
Copacabana - Barry Manilow
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Despacito - Luis Fonsi
Disco Inferno - The Trammps
Don't Bring Me Down - ELO
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
Do You Believe In Love – Cher
Everyone Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears
Funkytown - Lipps Inc.
Get Lucky - Daft Punk
Go Your Own Way – Fleetwood Mac
Heart Of Glass - Blondie
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
Hound Dog – Elvis Presley
I’ll Be There For You (Friends theme) - The Rembrandts
Islands In The Stream – Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers
It's not unusual - Tom Jones
I want to rock and roll all night - Kiss
Let me be your teddy bear- Elvis Presley
Living On A Prayer - Bon jovi
Maneater - Hall & Oates
Man I feel like a woman - Shania Twain
Marry you - Bruno Mars
Moves Like Jagger - Maroon 5
My First, My Last, My Everything – Barry White
Need You Now – Lady Antebellum
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
Proud Mary - CCR
Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head - B.J. Thomas.
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
Rock around the clock - Bill Haley
Save The Last Dance For Me – Michael Bublé
See See Rider (with live 2001 Intro) – Elvis Presley
Sunglasses at Night - Correy Hart
Suspicious Minds - Elvis Presley
Sweet Caroline – Neil Diamond
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
There's a Kind of Hush - Herman's Hermits
The Twist - Chubby Checker
Titanium - David Guetta & Sia
Treasure - Bruno Mars
Twist and Shout - Beatles
Waka Waka - Shakira
Y.M.C.A. - Village People
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Zombie - The Cranberries
BALLADS / AMBIANCE
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Against All Odds - Phil Collins
All of Me - John Legend
Almost Paradise – Footloose theme
Crazy – Patsy Cline
Don't Know What You Got - Cinderella
(Everything I Do) I Do It For You – Bryan Adams
Heaven - Bryan Adams
Heaven - Warrant
I Knew I Loved You - Savage Garden
I’ll Be There For You – Bon Jovi
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
Keep On Loving You - Reo Speedwagon
Perfect - Ed Sheeran
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Still Loving You - Scorpions
Stuck on you - Lionel Ritchie
Us and Them - Pink Floyd
What’s Up – 4 Non-Blondes
Wind of Change - Scorpion
Yesterday Once More – The Carpenters
You Are The Reason - Calum Scott
FRANCOPHONE
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C'est ma vie - Adamo
Chante la vie - Michel Fugain
Comme j'ai toujours envie d'aimer - Marc Hamilton
Des croissants de soleil - Ginette Reno
Donne-moi ta bouche - Pierre Lalonde
J'ai rencontré l'homme de ma vie - Diane Dufresne
La dame en bleu - Michel Louvain
Le Ya-Ya - Joel Denis
Pour un flirt - Michel Delpech
Soleil soleil - Nana Mouskouri
Toujours Vivant - Gerry Boulet
Toute la pluie tombe sur moi - Sacha Distel
Trois p'tits coups - Johnny Farago
Un amour qui ne veut pas mourir - Renée Martel
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