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Simon and joining us today is an acclaimed I have a novella winning British

musician songwriter, composer and producer widely regarded as one of the most

innovative artists around today. His oeuverus spans a myriad of styles

from Western classical to hip-hop, to jazz, to flamenco,

to Indian and Brazilian music

and everything in between,

while his sundry collaborators include Paul McCartney,

Sting, A.R. R. R. R. R. R. R. Schankar, Jules Holland, Joss Stone, Jeff Beck,

Annie Lennox and Ellie Goulding.

He recently released his 11th studio album and First and Over Five Years,

The Excellent Immigrants, which is the official sequel to his Mercury nominated

1999 breakthrough Beyond Skin, and he joined us over Zoom in late February to talk about it.

We're honoured to welcome the prodigiously talented Nittensoni to the show.

Nittin was born in Dulwich, South London and raised in Rochester,

Kent. His dad was a research biochemist, while his mom was a classical Indian dancer who also taught dance and English.

He studied piano as a child, achieving his grade 8 by the age of 11, as well as classical and flamenco guitar, sitar and tabla.

He was exposed to a wide range of different music at home,

such as Indian classical music, flamenco, Cuban music, rock and pop.

He was also introduced to Punjabi folk music on a family trip to India.

As a teenager, it cut his performing teeth in a variety of musical settings, from

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