Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah (born March 31, 1983),[5] (formerly Christian Scott),[6] is an American jazz trumpeter, multi-instrumentalist, composer, and producer.
Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah
March 31, 1983
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
- Musician
- composer
- Adjuah trumpet (reverse flugelhorn)
- flugelhorn
- siren
- sirenette
- cornet
- soprano trombone[3][4]
1996–present
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]
Early life[edit]
Adjuah was born on March 31, 1983, in New Orleans, Louisiana,[16] to Cara Harrison and Clinton Scott III. He has an identical twin brother, writer-director Kiel Adrian Scott. He began studying jazz with his uncle, jazz alto saxophonist Donald Harrison Jr, when he was 12.[17] He attended the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA), for high school and studied jazz under the guidance of program directors Clyde Kerr, Jr. and Kent Jordan.[17] Adjuah appeared on Harrison Jr.’s albums Paradise Found and Kind of New after joining his uncle's quintet at age 16.[18] He graduated from NOCCA in 2001.[19]