This year I was commissioned by Manchester International Festival & Theatre-Rites to compose for my first theatrical production. It's an uplifting new show mixing dance, music, theatre and puppetry for all the family. We started the creative process in November 2020, had an intense 10 day research and development phase over Zoom in January and then spent six weeks (May to June) forming a creative bubble right in the city centre of Manchester to bring...
Oooh! Nitin Sawhney and I got to perform our beautiful song 'Movement - Variation II' taken from his latest album 'Immigrants' (broadcast 26th March 2021) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G1zZyBC174 ...
Wow! Massive thanks to the PRSFoundation for supporting my commission from the Solem Quartet for Part IV, 'Experiments', of their Beethoven Bartok Now Series. Cannot wait to get started 🤩👏🏾🙌🏾🎻🎵 #BBN ...
I originally wrote the song Rise Up to encourage and remind my generation and especially the young Black people in my Caribbean community of who they are. Their greatness, they power, their gifts, their belonging in this world. It was released on my debut album Road Runner in 2019 and on the back of last year and all the racial uprisings, the lyrics resonated even more, so I wanted to release the song alongside two...
I loved writing this blog on my transnational identity as a composer for Sound and Music curated by composer Alex Ho. Click HERE to have a read. Would love to know your biggest takeaways...
Monday was Windrush Day (22nd June 2020) and I was honoured to celebrate my Grandparents and all the Windrush heroes by being featured in 'The Windrush Suite', a very special new piece composed by bassist/composer Renell Shaw in association with the Vortex Jazz Club and PRS Foundation. Enjoy! x [embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WHkLvRbPLZM[/embed] ...