MIKE DE SOUZA

Mike De Souza grew up in Hertfordshire (UK), where he first picked up the guitar at the age of 12, marking the start of a life-long obsession with music. Since graduating from the Royal Academy of Music in 2014, he has completed multiple UK jazz tours, has performed festivals internationally in Krakow (Jazz Juniors 2021), Graz (Jazzwerkstatt 2017) and Northern Spain (Ni CaJazz! and EGA Jazz festivals 2022), and regularly performs at  many of the UK’s most  prestigious jazz clubs including Ronnie Scott’s, and Pizza Express. Since moving to London in 2012, he has worked with internationally renowned musicians including  Byron Wallen, and has featured on numerous recordings as a side-man: Fictions, Reflector (Twospeak), Beware of the Bear (Phil Meadows), and Music for Bosch People (Alex Paxton). In 2017, he co-released the album ‘Pond Life’ as part of the group Big Bad Wolf, which was ranked 3rd in Jazzwise read more...