BBC Music Magazine

Shawn E Okpebholo

My mom was a single mom and couldn’t afford music lessons – we lived in government housing in one of the poorest areas of Lexington, Kentucky. The Salvation Army church bus would come through and so we went to a Wednesday night programme, like a boy scout/girl scout thing. When I was eight they gave me a baritone horn, my twin sister an alto horn (or

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