Sola Akingbola is a percussionist, composer, singer-songwriter, and the architect of a new sonic movement: Black Atlantic Funk.

With the release of his full-length album ‘How Should I…’ (June 2025), Sola steps fully into authorship — defining a sound rooted in Yoruba rhythmic intelligence and shaped by decades of global collaboration.

Black Atlantic Funk is not simply a genre. It is a worldview — a rhythmic journey through cultural entanglement, migration, memory, and identity. It explores how ancestral intelligence is carried through sound: not as fixed tradition, but as living, adaptive force.

After nearly three decades as a core creative force within Jamiroquai, Sola’s work now moves under his own banner — blending percussive architecture, orchestration, groove, and diasporic consciousness into a cohesive and evolving body of work.

‘How Should I…’ has been met with powerful international response, positioning Black Atlantic Funk as both sonic identity and cultural framework — a movement grounded in lineage yet expansive in expression.

Alongside his recording career, Sola is a two-time BMI Award winner for Best Film & TV Score (CBS’ Bob Hearts Abishola), and has composed original music for the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. His collaborative work spans generations and genres — from David Bowie, Stevie Wonder, Damon Albarn, and Tony Allen to Lokua Kanza and Idris Elba — always guided by a uniquely Yoruba-rooted rhythmic template.

At the centre of everything is rhythm — not as accompaniment, but as spiritual technology.

Sola’s work asks a simple but profound question:
How should we be in the world — when identity is fluid, relational, and alive?

The journey, as ever, begins from within.