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Nikki Yeoh
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NIKKI YEOH writes that her earliest memories of composing at the piano were perching on the piano stool of her gran’s Islington council flat, sitting on copies of books — including the London A-Z — to bring her hands level with the keys.
Now, nearly four decades on, she has made her first solo album, full of her own compositions and each one telling something of her own packed musical life which began in London in 1973, the daughter of an English mother and a Malaysian-Chinese father, and has passed through leading her band at the Royal Festival Hall, performances with hip-hop DJ Pogg and singers Cleveland Watkiss and Neneh Cherry, and travels researching the music of India, Europe, eastern Asia and Latin America.
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