Ross Daly's journey in the music of the world is inseparable from the course of his life. An Irishman born in England, he travelled as a child with his family around the world and soon his deep interest in music emerged. His first instrument was the cello, which he studied in England. Then he began studying the guitar in Japan at the age of twelve. The late sixties found him in San Francisco, where having experienced both the classical discipline and the air of freedom and experimentation of the time, he first encountered the Eastern musical tradition and became fascinated by Ravi Shankar's playing of the sitar at the Monterey Festival. Hence he began studying Indian music, first in England and eventually in India.
   He then travelled to Afghanistan where he studied the local traditional music and the Rabab, an Afghani stringed instrument. After returining to Europe, he visited Crete in 1975 and during his travels throughout the island became acquainted with the local music. He sttled in the island and began playing the Cretan Lyra with the great master Kostas Mountakis. Later, he travelled in Turkey where he studied classical Eastern music.
   Twenty-five years later, Ross Daly has more than fifteen personal recordings. Greece still provides a base for Ross Daly's personal and musical search as he travels around the world performing his music.
   A master multi-instrumentalist himself, Ross Daly has repeatedly teamed with master musicians from all over the world working within the musical discipline of the Eastern traditions while at the same time freely exploring creative improvisation. A virtuoso of Eastern musical instruments, he plays the laouto, rabab, Cretan and Politiki lyras, sarangi, oud, saz and tanbur.