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Composer: Tunde Jegede

Composer: Tunde Jegede

Tunde Jegede playing kora

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Introduction

Tunde Jegede is a composer, performer and producer whose background straddles traditional West African and Western classical music, as well as hip-hop and R&B. Tunde wrote a song, Moving Away, for SoundJunction. Find out about how he did it from this page.

Tunde Jegede playing kora

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Where do the ideas come from?

Tunde Jegede walking down the street

Tunde discusses his sources of inspiration, and talks about the importance of expression in his music.

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Composer Tunde Jegede with kora and cello

How does Tunde learn to mix musical styles?

Composer Tunde Jegede explains the many benefits of drawing musical influences from different cultures.

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Tunde Jegede playing kora with Maya Jobarteh

Tunde Jegede composing two traditions

Tunde is unusual in the way his background straddles two different traditions: European and African. He explains what this is like.

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Young Tunde’s musical influences

Composer Tunde Jegede discusses the musical influences that have affected him since childhood

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Exploring Moving Away

Use the Explorer tool to find out what's going on inside the song Moving Away, by Tunde Jegede

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