I am London and Lagos; Funk and Folk; Poetry and Politics; Philosophy and Performance

My perspective on music - composition and percussion - and the kinds of productions and projects I am involved with, are all a reflection of the in-between of the social and cultural spaces I have embodied and that I inhabit as a British Nigerian.

My heart is in two places - here in England - yes, but in Nigeria too. My grandmother was from a travelling masquerade cult in Yoruba-land - I am part of that - it calls me.

The groove that I cultivate is as much Manu Dibango and Fela Kuti as it is Funkadelic and Earth Wind and Fire; I am as likely to listen to PJ Harvey’s ‘Let England Shake’, or move to the drum of Mark Rylance in ‘Jerusalem’, as I am to be inspired by the spoken word of Kae Tempest.