Femi Temowo

Femi Temowo is a guitarist ‘par excellence’. Born September 1976 in the city of Akure in Nigeria, he is the first in a family of ten siblings. Femi began playing the guitar aged 17 after having moved to London at 10 years old and very quickly entered into professional ranks, by age 21 he was already highly regarded on the jazz and popular music scene. Between 1998/01 Femi studied jazz at Middlesex University under the great educator Stuart Hall (Loose Tubes).

After graduating, he was approached by UK Jazz/Hip-Hop artist Soweto Kinch to join his then brand new quartet, the quartet went to on to win many awards including a Mercury Music Prize nomination, BBC jazz award for best new group and several Mobo awards.

As an educator Femi is a regular tutor on the guitar Faculty at Tech Music School, a contemporary music institute based in west London. He also gives master classes and seminars all over Europe and the UK as part of ‘The Urbanator Project,’ a music education programme founded by violinist Michal Urbaniak (Miles Davis) and based in Poland.

Femi’s slick and melodic guitar sound has earned him a place beside many great musicians and artists from across many genres, having played with the likes of –George Benson, Courtney Pine, The Roots, Omar, Roachford, Amy Winehouse, Jason Rebello, Eska Mtungwazi, Soweto Kinch, Terri Walker, Jean Toussaint, Don Blackman, Michal Urbaniak and many
more.