years_active birth_place style nationality ethnicity name birth_date residence organization article_title education birth_name occupation alma_mater
1976 -- present london , england african classical music british irish , nigerian tunde jegede 28 january 1972 london , england , abuja , nigeria xiom music tunde jegede
 cello , music tunde jegede composer , producer , cellist , kora player purcell school of music , guildhall school of music
tunde jegede

tunde jegede -lrb- born 28 january 1972 -rrb- is a composer and multi-instrumentalist in contemporary classical , african and pop music , who was born in england and as a child travelled to africa to learn the art of the kora .
he is a producer-songwriter and has worked across several genres both as a performer -lrb- cello , kora , piano and percussion -rrb- and producer .
he is a master kora player , and specializes in the west african classical music tradition which dates from the period of sundiata .
his sister is sona jobarteh , who is the first female kora virtuoso to come from a griot family .
his father is nigerian artist emmanuel taiwo jegede .
