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SPOTLIGHT KISHON KHAN

My first meeting with Bangladesh-born musician Kishon Khan was when a mutual student friend took me to his flat in central London. The doorbell was broken, it was late, raining and I wanted to go home, but my friend Umair was insistent: ‘Trust me, it’ll be cool!’

We stood in the dark throwing pebbles at Khan’s window until he buzzed us up. Inside, musicians of various nationalities were jamming to the soundtrack of Disney’s . Nobody spoke much in any

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