14 Facts About Moses Boyd

Moses Boyd was born on 30 April 1991 and is a British jazz drummer, composer, record producer, bandleader and radio host.

Boyd's self-titled jazz band Moses Boyd Exodus released several mixtapes in the mid-2010s and together have recorded most of Boyd's solo releases.

Under his own label, Exodus Records, Moses Boyd made his solo debut with the extended play Absolute Zero in 2017, and followed it up with Displaced Diaspora in 2018.

Moses Boyd has additionally collaborated with musicians such as Beyonce, Little Simz, Lonnie Liston Smith, Zara McFarlane, Obongjayar, Ed Motta, Sons of Kemet, Soweto Kinch, Floating Points, Four Tet and Theon Cross.

Moses Boyd was born and raised in the district of Catford in south London.

Moses Boyd describes himself as a "second-generation West Indian" with Dominican descent from his father and Jamaican descent from his mother.

Moses Boyd attended Sedgehill School, which was where he began learning drums.

Moses Boyd performed a few stints filling in for Gilles Peterson on BBC Radio 6 Music in mid 2020.

Moses Boyd is popularly known for blending multiple genres into jazz to create various new sub-genres.

Moses Boyd has been noted to perform and write in the styles of nu-jazz, and fusion, additionally incorporating elements of grime, electronica, highlife and broken beat.

Moses Boyd has described his own music as "an extension of black music, the diaspora" that draws influence from afrobeats, soca, reggae, drum and bass and jungle music.

Moses Boyd is known as a prominent figure within the modern London jazz scene.

Moses Boyd has cited Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and Dizzee Rascal's Boy in Da Corner as major influences.

Moses Boyd is closely associated with jazz personality and DJ Gilles Peterson, whom he cites as an influence in learning how to "use jazz in club culture".