After a year of searching and collaborating with other musicians they found what they were looking, when they met and played with Bora Bekiroglu and Rudy Levis.

The concept behind Satoria is inspired by Simon’s long time study of Buddhism, Yoga, Chi Gung and Chinese martial arts. The origin of the name comes from the Japanese Zen term Satori which means to awaken and discover one's true nature.
He had a vision of a place called Satoria, a utopia where humans transcend labels of race, class and background to find oneness. A place where we embrace our differences, all the while knowing that at the core, we are the same.

Satoria combines the influences of Rock, progressive, Jazz, Folk and world music influences from Africa, the Caribbean and Turkey.

ECEM UZGOR – VOCAL / VIOLIN

Ecem Uzgor is a beauty representative of Turkey and an internationally known model. She has been residing in London for 10 years whilst pursuing her singing and acting careers.
Turkish singer Ecem Uzgor was born in Bursa/Turkey and grew up in London/UK. She speaks English, Turkish and Spanish. She started playing violin at the age of 12 with the influence of her harpist uncle Cagatay Akyol who has been giving concerts worldwide. She played violin in Yalova Orchestra until the age of 16. She attended to a singing competition called Miller Music factory at the age of 18 and gained the 3rd place in cover category among 2000 applications which was broadcasted in Dream TV/Turkey in 2008. She received her award from Ferman Akgül who is the lead vocalist of Band Manga that represented Turkey in Eurovision 2010. This achievement motivated her to make progress in performing arts and she decided to move to London for studying music and acting. She performed in musicals such as Godspell and Cinderella in London. She has always been very passionate about acting and singing (performing arts) As she gained some reputation in arts sector and she started receiving offers for modeling works. After working in runway shows such as London fashion week, Essex fashion week, Harrods fashion week etc. around the world, in 2016, she represented Turkey in Top Model of The World in Germany. She has been pursuing her acting career internationally and performing her music with various musicians and bands.

SIMON O`KEEFFE – ELECTRIC GUITAR
Simon is an international musician and has performed all over the world from Europe to East Asia, he currently resides In London where he was born. He has spent the recent part of his career performing and producing his own music but has worked in the past as a band leader for many other artists including, Memory falls, Junk TV, Empirical Resolve, Louise Lathom, Sophie Lagan and many more.
His playing is described as being groove based with lush harmonies, lots of chops with an advanced harmonic palette. It combines influences from jazz but has a rock edge with an eastern influence from his time spent in China and Japan, performing and studying Martial arts and Buddhism, as well as his long time study of yoga and meditation.

OSWALDO SANTOS – ACOUSTIC GUITAR
Born in São Tomé and Príncipe, a west African archipelago crossed by the equator line. Formed the acoustic trio “Grupo Tempo” in 1996 with which has recorded two albums, “São Tomé” and “Trio Tempo” in Sweden 2001 and France in 2006, respectively. During his tenure in this world music project he toured extensively worldwide and shared the stages with Malian guitarist Habib Koite, Mozambican supergroup Ghorwane, French Jazz singer Mina Agossi, Brazilian singer Titane and guitar virtuoso Gilvan de Oliveira, among many others. As guitarist/ composer he’s adopted the concept of tropical guitar where a range of styles such as jazz , blues , Afro Creole, classical are dissected and mixed with many ethnic references in order to create an unique mosaic of textures and rhythms.
He currently lives in London and works as guitar teacher in Primary schools in the borough of Newham.

RUDY LEVIS – DRUMS
Rudy Levi's is one of the most popular musicians in the French Caribean country of Guadeloupe where he's originally coming from. He's been actively participating in the music industry for the last 20 years as Musical Director and Drummer of K-Ravan Band and many top Zouk artists including the singers of Kassav band. Since 2012 Rudy Levi's has been residing in the UK where he collaborates as a drummer with many artists such as TJ Jonhson, David Joseph from Hi Tension, Andy Roberts, Michael Mendez. After having successfully completed his Professional Diploma in Music ( EQF Level 5), Rudy has joined Satoria band where he is able to share his talent and bring a Caribbean touch to this eclectic project.
Currently, Rudy is touring around the globe, especially in Europe, the USA and the Caribbean, where he is actively promoting the work of Satoria.

BORA BEKIROGLU – BASS GUITAR
Bora Bekiroglu is an international recording/touring bass player and music producer with 16 years of experience in the industry.
Having gained the necessary performing experience in function and cover bands for 8 years in Istanbul, he went on to produce his own material, releasing several records with Avam Grade Trio - an ethnic/electronic fusion band, Odylle - a dutch singer songwriter, Siyah (Black) - an alternative rock band and Mikado - a progressive pop-rock-jazz band.
Bora Bekiroglu playing bass guitar on stage. He joined Turkish pop star Can Bonomo’s crew from his debut in 2010 until 2015, playing on his Eurovision song contest entry in 2012 which reached seventh position on the night.
Bora is also a professional photographer and filmmaker. With 16 years as one of Istanbul's top session multi-genre bass players, as well as his his other talents, Bora realised that there is nothing much left to be done in Turkey, foreseeing the current economic crisis there. Deciding it was better to pursue his dreams in the English speaking world music capital, he moved to London in May, 2018 and continues his journey on creating great artistic products.