Raquy Danziger is a celebrated performer, teacher, and composer and artist known worldwide for her expertise on the Middle Eastern darbuka drum.  Hailing from unlikely Western roots, Raquy has distinguished herself as a unique phenomenon and earned a place of renown in the genre. She has collaborated and performed with some of the most famous Middle Eastern drummers in the world and has given concerts and workshops across the USA, Canada, The Middle East, Asia, Europe, Russia and South America. 

Based in Jaffa, Raquy specializes in the Turkish split hand technique.  This style was born twenty years ago when the Turkish drummers began splitting the hand, thus attaining unprecedented speed and dexterity. In 2012 Raquy opened her “Darbuka Ofis” in downtown Istanbul, where she trained daily under the direction of her teacher, master drummer Bünyamin Olguncan.  Her Ofis became a center for drumming, attracting drummers from all over the world who flocked to Istanbul to learn from Raquy and Bünyamin.

Raquy also plays the twelve- string King Kemenche Tarhu, a rare and exotic bowed instrument, designed after the Iranian spike fiddle.  She currently studies the kemenche with master player Imamyar Hasanov from Azerbaijan.

Raquy has composed over 50 melodic compositions as well as countless drumming pieces which she plays in her concerts and can be heard in her albums.

She has had the honor of performing several times in Egypt as a soloist with Said El Artist (The Egyptian "King of Tabla") and his drumming orchestra at the Cairo Opera House, the Alexandria Opera House, the Cairo Citadel, the historic Ewart Hall in downtown Cairo, and the Great Hall in the Bibliotheque in Alexandria. In 2005, she was the recipient of the Meet the Composer grant, which enabled her to perform her original composition with Said El Artist's orchestra in Egypt. Raquy has appeared on Good Morning Egypt, Leila Kebira, O TV, the Culture Channel,Turkish Television, Arabs Got Talent, and has been interviewed on Al Gezira.

Raquy's infectious enthusiasm for Middle Eastern music has attracted students from around the globe. She has released five drumming instructional kits.  All of her teachings are also available through her Online Darbuka School.  Raquy hosts drumming retreats and seminars for her students in various locations across the globe. She has also created her own line of custom-designed drums that are available through her online store - The Raquy Drum Store.

When the world shut down in 2019 she immersed herself in the ancient art for of illumination painting and wrote a vegan cookbook. She exhibits her art twice a week at the prestigious Nachlat Binyamin artist market in Tel Aviv.

Raquy’s albums include:

Darbuka Magic, 2017
Neverland, 2017
Monkey Mind, 2015
Bal Dudak, 2013
Release the Green Lover 2010
Bewitched 2009
Mischief 2008
Naked 2007
Jordan 2005
Dust 2004
Masmoudi 2001

Her other publications include the following books:

The Decadent Vegan 2022
Melodic compositions 2021
Darbuka compositions 2021
Darbuka Method - 2017
Dumbek Fever IV - 2014
Dumbek Fever III - 2011
Dumbek Fever II- 2008
Dumbek Fever I - 2005