Nubya Garcia’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro British jazz musician (tenor sax, flute, composition)
Is Musician 
Composer 
Bandmaster 
Saxophonist 
From United Kingdom 
Type Music 
Gender female
Birth 1991, London, UK
Age: 29 years
Instruments:
Tenor saxophone

Nubya Nyasha Garcia (born 1991) is a British jazz musician, saxophonist, flautist, composer and bandleader.

Life and work

Nubya Garcia the youngest of four siblings born in Camden Town, London to a Guyanese mother, a former Civil Servant and a British Trinidadian father, a film maker. Garcia followed her older siblings to the local Saturday music centre at the age of 5, where she first learned the violin and later played the viola in the London Schools Symphony Orchestra (LSSO).

Garcia has said her home life with her step-dad, a very good brass player with a vast collection of instruments, and her mother a keen collector of all genres of music from reggae and Latin to classical and soul, coupled with the music activities at school, Camden School for Girls, meant she was saturated with music of all genres.

Garcia began learning the saxophone at the age of 10, with Vicky Wright until attaining ABRSM G8 distinction. She very early became a member of the Camden Jazz Band, directed by jazz pianist Nikki Yeoh, before joining the junior jazz program at the Royal Academy of Music. She also attended the workshops of Tomorrow’s Warriors under the direction of Gary Crosby. While still in High School, she received a scholarship for a five-week summer program at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. During her Gap Year she studied with former Jazz Messengers member, Jean Toussaint. In 2016 she graduated with Honours from the Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance, in Jazz Performance.

In 2017, Garcia released her debut album Nubya’s 5ive via the label Jazz re:freshed. That year, her Nubya Garcia Band was an opening act at Gilles Peterson’s Worldwide Festival in Sète; the following year she played at the NYC Winter Jazz Festival and the Jazzfest Berlin.

In her 2018 EP When We Are, Garcia explored how electronics can be used in a live jazz environment; the EP was created as a result of the Steve Reid Innovation Award. She is also a member of the Nérija, a collective, and the band Maisha led by drummer Jake Long. In addition, she is a collaborator on albums by Makaya McCraven, Theon Cross, Moses Boyd Exodus, the Toshio Matsuura Group and Sons of Kemet to Shabaka Hutchings; contributions from her can be found on five tracks of Brownswoods We Out Here, a sampler album from the modern London jazz scene.

Garcia tours internationally, in Europe, India, Australia, and North America. She regularly performs at Greenfield festivals in the UK including Love Supreme Jazz Festival. Garcia has headlined sell out shows at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club London

Nubya Garcia has a burgeoning reputation as a DJ, with a hit monthly radio residency on NTS Radio since November 2017.

Discography

Leader

  • Nubya 5ive (2017)
  • When We Are EP (2018)

Collaborations

  • Various Artists – We Out Here (2018)
  • Maisha – Welcome to a New Welcome (2016)
  • Maisha – There is a Place (2018)
  • Nérija – Nérija EP (2019)
  • Nérija – Blume (2019)

Sidewoman

  • Ezra Collective – Juan Pablo: The Philosopher (2017)
  • Blue Lab Beats – Freedom (2017)
  • Joe Armon-Jones – Starting Today (2018)
  • Makaya McCraven – Where We Come From (2018)
  • Makaya McCraven – Universal Beings (2018)
  • Eun – Darkness must be Beautiful (2018)
  • Joe Armon-Jones – Turn To Clear View (2019)
  • Theon Cross – Fyah (2019)
  • Ben Hayes – Ready Yet (2019)
  • DJ Yoda – Home Cooking (2019)

Awards

  • 2018 Jazz FM Awards – UK Breakthrough Act – Winner
  • 2018 South Bank Sky Arts Award Times Breakthrough Act – Winner
  • 2019 Jazz FM Awards – UK Jazz Act of the Year – Winner
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