1. Nubya Nyasha Garcia was born on 1991 and is a British jazz musician, saxophonist, composer and bandleader.
18 Facts About Nubya Garcia
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Nubya Garcia followed her three older siblings to the local Camden Saturday Music Centre at the age of five, where she first learned the violin and later played the viola in the London Schools Symphony Orchestra.
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Nubya Garcia's upbringing by her stepdad, a brass player, and music loving mother, coupled with the music activities at Camden School for Girls, meant she was exposed to multiple genres of music.
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Nubya Garcia began learning the saxophone at the age of 10, with Vicky Wright.
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Nubya Garcia became a member of the Camden Jazz Band, directed by jazz pianist Nikki Yeoh, before joining the junior jazz programme at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Nubya Garcia attended youth music workshops at the Roundhouse in Camden and Tomorrow's Warriors under the direction of Gary Crosby.
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In 2016, Nubya Garcia graduated with honours from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, in Jazz Performance.
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In 2017, Garcia released her debut EP Nubya's 5ive via the label Jazz re:freshed.
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Nubya Garcia is a member of the collective Nerija and the Afro-jazz ensemble Maisha.
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Nubya Garcia has performed at festivals in the UK including Love Supreme Jazz Festival and NN North Sea Jazz Festival.
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Nubya Garcia has headlined sell-out shows at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club.
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Since November 2017 Nubya Garcia has held monthly radio residency as a DJ on NTS Radio.
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Nubya Garcia released her debut studio album Source in August 2020 on the Concord Jazz label.
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In December 2020, Nubya Garcia joined a band of British jazz musicians called London Brew to play on the Bitches Brew-inspired self-titled album, which was announced for release on 31 March 2023 by Concord Jazz.
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Nubya Garcia debuted her band on 18 August at the 2021 BBC Proms held in London's Royal Albert Hall.
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On 15 September 2023, at the Royal Festival Hall, Nubya Garcia performed with the Nu Civilisation Orchestra their exploration of Stan Getz's 1962 album Focus, in a well-reviewed concert.
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Nubya Garcia has cited the prominent jazz saxophonists Dexter Gordon, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane, as well as trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist-composer Mary Lou Williams, as her "musical heroes".
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Nubya Garcia included Steel Pulse, a UK-based reggae band from Birmingham, among her musical inspirations.