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Sheku Kanneh-Mason
12+ albums
celloinstrumentalbritishcontemporary classicalClassical
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Sheku Kanneh-Mason MBE (born 4 April 1999) is a British cellist who won the 2016 BBC Young Musician award. He was the first Black musician to win the competition since its launch in 1978. He played at the wedding of Prince Harry to Meghan Markle on 19 May 2018 under the direction of Christopher Warren-Green. As of 2021, Kanneh-Mason plays a Matteo Goffriller cello which was made in 1700. Kanneh-Mason grew up in Nottingham, England. He was born to Stuart Mason, from London, a luxury hotel business manager of Antiguan descent, and Dr. Kadiatu Kanneh, from Sierra Leone, a former lecturer at the University of Birmingham and author of the 2020 book House of Music: Raising the Kanneh-Masons. He is the third of seven children and began learning the cello at the age of six with Sarah Huson-Whyte, having briefly played the violin. His love for the cello started when he saw his sister perform in 'Stringwise', an annual weekend course for young Nottingham string players, run by the local music charity Music for Everyone. He then switched from violin to cello and went on to take part in Music for Everyone's Stringwise courses, impressing their conductors with his ability to play everything from memory. At the age of nine, he passed the Grade 8 cello examination with the highest marks in the UK, and won the Marguerite Swan Memorial Prize. Also aged nine he won an ABRSM junior scholarship to join the Junior Academy of the Royal Academy of Music, where he was tutored by Ben Davies. Kanne
top songs
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Come, Sweet Death, BWV 478 (Arr. for 5 Cellos)
15,1862No Woman, No Cry (Arr. Kanneh-Mason)
11,8263Myfanwy (Arr. for Solo Cello)
10,8644No Woman, No Cry (Arr. Cello)
9,0015Melody
5,2906Savior of the Nations, Come, BWV 659 (Arr. for 4 Cellos)
4,1487Star of the County Down (Arr. for Solo Cello)
2,8998Gabriel's Message
2,0789Savior of the Nations, Come, BWV 659 (Arr. Kanneh-Mason for 4 Cellos)
1,96610Same Boat
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