Amy Wamy

Amy Wamy - Drums

About 13 years ago there was a plane crash above a famous, hot, sticky jungle the name of which I cannot remember at this moment. There we're no survivors, apart from one baby. After a few days, some local monkeys stumbled across the little child and took her away to their secret hide away in trees. They decided that they would look after the child and keep her safe from harm. Soon she began swinging through the tree tops and eating nuts like the rest of them. When she was four years old it was decided that the young girl would have to learn the jungle chant. She was given some bongo drums and was taught the special 'Um Bongo Dance' by the head monkey. It took around seven years for her to perfect this. She spent hours practising and would sit banging the bongos for days at a time, until one day, out of the blue, the Um Bongo song was perfect. She played it better than all the monkeys put together. Animals came from all around to witness her play the song. They danced through the night. Lions danced with zebras, tigers danced with gazelles, hippos danced with hyenas. It was an amazing sight to behold. Then suddenly, through the forest came a herd of elephants being chased by men with guns. The animals fled to anywhere they could hide, and left behind, was one very frightened eleven year old girl on a pair of bongos. The men threw down their guns and ran to the child. They took her back on the plane to England with them where she was adopted by a kind family. They named her Amy Wamy, as that means “Child of the jungle”. Amy Wamy was very distressed as she had been taken away from the animals she loved and cared for. She didn't speak for three years, until one day she was given a drum which she began communicating through. This was her only form of happiness and soon this enabled her to begin speaking the English language she speaks today. It is a miracle that she can speak at all, in fact, it's a miracle she's even alive.