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Tunde Jegede was born on 28 January, 1972 in London, England, is a British-Nigerian composer (born 1972). Discover Tunde Jegede's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 52 years old?

Popular As Tunde Jegede
Occupation Composer, producer, cellist, kora player
Age 52 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 28 January 1972
Birthday 28 January
Birthplace London, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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Who Is Tunde Jegede's Wife?

His wife is Sunara Begum (m. 2012)

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Parents Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede and Galina Chester
Wife Sunara Begum (m. 2012)
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Tunde Jegede Net Worth

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1972

Tunde Jegede (born 28 January 1972) 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.

He is a producer-songwriter and has worked across several genres both as a performer (cello, kora, piano and percussion) 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.

Tunde Jegede was born in London in 1972 to a Nigerian father and English mother (of Irish descent – the painter/filmmaker Galina Chester).

His father Emmanuel Taiwo Jegede was artist-in-residence at North London's Keskidee Centre, Britain's first Black Arts Centre, where Tunde's appreciation of African diasporic culture was initiated and nurtured.

From an early age he was exposed to resident and visiting artists who worked in a multi-disciplinary mode, including Bob Marley, Walter Rodney, Edward Brathwaite, Angela Davis and Linton Kwesi Johnson.

It was here that Jegede's path as an artist began.

1978

Jegede's apprenticeship in African music began in 1978 and was further developed in 1982 when he first went to The Gambia to study the ancient griot tradition of West Africa, with Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, Master of the Kora (West African harp-lute).

1988

In 1988 Jegede became fascinated with jazz and worked and toured with ex-members of the Jazz Warriors founded by Courtney Pine and Cleveland Watkiss.

Jegede formed his own jazz ensemble, The Jazz Griots, with the purpose of exploring the connections between African and African diasporic forms of music.

1991

In 1991, he pioneered African Classical music in the UK with the first ever national tour of the African Classical Music Ensemble, which nurtured his burgeoning composer credentials.

1995

In 1995, a BBC TV documentary called Africa I Remember was done on Jegede's music and focused on his orchestral work.

In this programme, he performed new compositions alongside the London Sinfonietta, which was conducted by Markus Stenz.

With his now fully-fledged composer credentials, Jegede was appointed as innovations composer for the Eastern Orchestral Board, who facilitated his working with many of the major orchestras in the UK including the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia, Britten Sinfonia, Viva Sinfonia, the London Mozart Players and the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.

All these orchestras and ensembles were keen to play his original compositions.

During this period, he was specially commissioned to write a percussion concerto for Evelyn Glennie and Double Orchestra, an oratorio for the city of Milton Keynes and a string quartet for the Brodsky Quartet as a part of their Beethoven Op. 18 recording, which was released on the Vanguard label and is still being performed by them worldwide.

Over the years, Jegede has kept his creative diversity intact by working closely with singers, vocalists, and spoken-word artists from a wide range of traditions, including opera, pop, R'n'B, reggae, hip hop, and jazz.

2002

In 2002, he started ACM Productions with the primary goal of creating accessible quality productions across a small spectrum of genres, namely: Urban, Pop, Classical and jazz.

Born to a Nigerian father and Irish mother, Tunde Jegede had to learn to balance cultures and carve out an identity from an early age.

Music was his refuge.

2006

In 2006, Jegede co-wrote the short film The Idea.

2013

The Jobarteh family are one of five principal musician families within this hereditary oral tradition, which dates back to at least the 13th century.

Jegede's appreciation of Western Classical music began with his grandfather's love of Bach and by observing his work as a church organist.

Tunde also 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.

Leaving England as a child, Tunde travelled to Africa to train with master of kora Amadu Bansang Jobarteh, whose family has held the ancient griot tradition since the 13th century.

Here, Tunde found a sense of home and belonging, a place "where my inner and outer voice began to merge".

He was shown that music is a way of life, an integral part of society.

In parallel to studying kora, Tunde also studied cello in the Western classical tradition, but played these instruments in isolation from each other.

Only later, after a quest for a universal truth in music that took him through improvisational jazz and musical collaboration, did he finally find the space that allowed him to weave together all his musical threads.

He says, "Living between worlds allowed me to form my identity, embrace my path of a nomad".

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.