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In 2016, he scored the BBC documentary miniseries “Black and British: A Forgotten History,” where he was “able to bring together different strands of myself, musically, for the first time,” he said. “I could really lean into my Nigerian heritage, but also there was the classical side of things, as well as the more contemporary and popular music side of it.”
Source: L.A. Times – Entertainment News