Ammar Kalia

The muse can be a fickle thing to find, but Nida Manzoor’s inspiration has always been close to home. “My sister, Sanya, is only a year...

Dave Okumu is concerned about community. “Everyone is encouraged to go down a solitary road at the moment, where other people don’t...

“I’m pretty damn persistent,” Marley Munroe laughs. “It’s been a long, often gruelling road, but I’m finally here.” Munroe, AKA Lady...

At 15, Bukky Bakray was in drama class at school in east London, working her way through lines she can no longer remember, when she...

At 44, the comic and actor Kumail Nanjiani is best known for playing different versions of himself. His 2017 breakthrough in the...

Inside a converted south London shopfront sits a strange piano. Stripped of its black lacquer, with legs chiselled down to minimalist,...

For the past eight weeks, US singer-songwriter Britanny Fousheé has been spending her evenings screaming into the faces of filming teens....

Actor Anjana Vasan, 35, was born in Chennai, India, and moved to Singapore when she was four. In 2011, she relocated to Cardiff to study...

“One hundred thousand voices all singing together in harmony – that’s what gets me excited,” Jacob Collier says. “It’s an anthem that has...

For producer and DJ Maral, sampling is a deeply personal affair. “I see myself more as a listener than a producer,” she reveals over...

It has been a head-spinning year for drummer Tom Skinner. He has been crossing the globe touring new albums simultaneously with London...

It is a typically sunny Los Angeles morning, with light cutting through the blinds, when Jimmy Akingbola greets me on a video call from...

From the start of their 28-year friendship, Eliane Henri knew trumpeter Roy Hargrove was a genius. “I was 17 when I went to see his first...

Ever since he picked up a pair of drumsticks at eight years old and began playing along to a James Brown CD, Louis Cole has been chasing...

When Florida security guard George Zimmerman was acquitted over his shooting of unarmed Black teenager Trayvon Martin in 2013,...

Composer and producer 4stringsz has had an innate connection with the violin for as long as he can remember. “The first time I picked one...

Brittney Parks is on a mission “to show the Blackness of the violin”, she says. As a child in Ohio, she learned to play the instrument by...

You can hear the screaming from across the street. Through the window of a Brixton skate shop, two drummers are pounding away at a kit on...

“I have always been a hustler,” Rimzee says. “Music comes second because even though people say that your dream will eventually pay you,...

In 1995, 31-year-old Sanjeev Bhaskar was performing a two-week run of The Secret Asians, his comedy double act with the musician Nitin...