Cheryl Bada Salvetti:  

Life After high school, Cheri enrolled into Onondaga Community College in Syracuse, NY. There she graduated with an Associate Degree in Recreational Leadership. Through her twenties, she was married and raising a daughter Elyce, and music was put aside. During this time Cheri managed a fitness club and started bodybuilding. In 1984 she placed third in a woman's New York State bodybuilding championship. In 1991, a year after moving to Ocean Springs, Mississippi, Cheri met fellow musician and good friend, blues diva, Lisa Mills. So impressed with Lisa, Cheri decided to start playing music again. Through the 1990's, Cheri played drums with: rock and blues band, The Fixations for 4 years, (who toured out west a few times as far as Montana and south to the Keys), the Mobile, Alabama show band, Tribute and Lisa Mills who she still plays with on occasion. Between 1997 and April of 2004, Cheri, also known as Rhythm, helped bring success to the duo Rhythm & Rain with her creative talent and smooth harmony. Her unique array of mostly latin percussion instruments gives that full rhythm signature sound the duo was known for. The duo traveled as far as the Florida Key's each year besides the over 250 shows a year at coastal casinos, restaurants, festivals parrothead events and coporate ...Expand for more