Tunde Jegede was born on 28 January 1972 and is a composer and multi-instrumentalist in contemporary classical, African and pop music, who is of Nigerian descent and born in England and as a child travelled to Africa to learn the art of the kora.
12 Facts About Tunde Jegede
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Tunde Jegede is a producer-songwriter and has worked across several genres both as a performer and producer.
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Tunde Jegede is a master kora player, and specializes in the West African classical music tradition which dates from the period of Sundiata.
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Tunde Jegede's sister is Sona Jobarteh, who is the first female kora virtuoso to come from a griot family.
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Tunde Jegede was born in London in 1972 to a Nigerian father and English mother.
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Tunde Jegede studied cello from the age of eight, and over the years was taught by people from the Classical world, including Alfia Bekova, Elma de Bruyne, Joan Dickson and Raphael Wallfisch at the Purcell School and later the Guildhall School of Music.
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In 1988 Tunde Jegede became fascinated with jazz and worked and toured with ex-members of the Jazz Warriors founded by Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss.
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Tunde Jegede formed his own jazz ensemble, The Jazz Griots, with the purpose of exploring the connections between African and African diasporic forms of music.
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Tunde Jegede was shown that music is a way of life, an integral part of society.
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In parallel to studying kora, Tunde Jegede studied cello in the Western classical tradition, but played these instruments in isolation from each other.
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Tunde Jegede says, "Living between worlds allowed me to form my identity, embrace my path of a nomad".
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Tunde Jegede is known for the score of 500 Years Later, directed by Owen 'Alik Shahadah, as well as the score of PBS production Hopes on the Horizon.