Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
American jazz composer and trumpeter / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983),[5] (formerly Christian Scott),[6] is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.
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Also known as | Chief Adjuah, aTunde Adjuah, X. Adjuah, Xian Adjuah[1][2] |
Born | (1983-03-31) March 31, 1983 (age 41) New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S. |
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Years active | 1996–present |
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Website | chiefadjuah |
He has been nominated for six Grammy Awards[7] and is a two-time Edison Award[8] winner. He has been named the Jazz FM Innovator of the Year[9] and the Jazz Journalists Association Trumpeter of the Year.[10] He has also received the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts,[11] the Changing Worlds Peace Maker Award, and the Doris Duke Performing Arts Award.[12] Adjuah is the nephew of jazz saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr.[13] Adjuah is the Chieftain of the Xodokan Nation of Maroons and Grand Griot of New Orleans, an honor bestowed by the Ashé Cultural Center as part of annual rites commemorating the Maafa.[14][15]