Kadiatu and Stuart Kanneh-Mason on raising confident black classical musicians
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มิ.ย. 2024
- Ahead of the broadcast of BBC One's Imagine...This House is Full of Music, Kadiatu and Stuart Kanneh-Mason, the parents of seven classical musicians (Isata, Braimah, Sheku, Konya, Jeneba, Aminata and Mariatu) talk to The Voice's Alannah Francis about life under lockdown, the importance of black role models, the Black Lives Matter movement and inviting the BBC inside their home.
Imagine...This House Is Full of Music, which captures a lockdown concert performed by the Kanneh-Mason family from their home in Nottingham, with interviews with the seven musically gifted siblings, airs Sunday 12 July at 6pm on BBC One.
The number 1 thing that their children have is them. Intelligent, educated, successful, interested, married parents.
Love how they let each other
Speak without interuption,it's a beautiful thing. Such poise.
I noticed that straight away...and beautiful...
What blessings Kadiatu & Stuart Kenneh-Mason have given the world thru their children!! Cannot get enough of them!!
I watched today’s tv program on this family, it was the most inspiring tv I have seen for ages, on all levels, well done as a family and such talent musically, it really gave me a high seeing such wonderfully happy people.
Great questions. It is worth fighting for music funding in state schools. Even if you don't become a Sheku you and your family benefits for generations.
I adore this beautiful family. The thing about them that is most inspiring isn’t that their children are talented and skilled musicians. It’s that each of them was drawn to music of their own volition, first with the eldest being drawn to the piano and her siblings following her lead, and their parents just gave them such a warm, supportive environment and provided them the resources necessary to pursue their love of music on their own. You can feel the passion and love each Kanneh-Mason sibling has for music when they pick up their respective instrument, and it flows so freely compared to many other musical families where it is apparent they are merely playing because it was expected of them by parents seeking to live vicariously through them.
Wow, wow, wow. Bravo to you all. To live in a house full of music must be heaven.
Great interviewer, really good questions. I grew up in Harlow New Town in the 70s where we had lots of free music in primary school and heavily subsidised music schools on a Saturday morning. All the children with musical talents in my primary got extra attention to foster their talent without any fuss at all. We weren't really aware of it. Music was a big part of my childhood. We had the area music festival at the nearest comprehensive and a recorder festival. We had recorder club at school and trebles club too. I consider myself really, really lucky to have had so much musical input from the age of 5!
Really lovely! I remember thinking how lucky my Cousin was who grew up in London as she studied something like 8 instruments at school and took several of them for O and A levels. This was back in the eighties.
Incredible and inspiring. The Imagine programme This House Is Full Of Music was magical!
Wonderfully talented family. So proud 👍🏿
marvellous people and family- I loved the Imagine programme
It was inspiring listening to an interview of the parents of Sheku and his siblings. I being a Freelance Journalist, would like to interview them over a meal of fish and chips meal at their house. I happen to be a frustrated musician, who missed the opportunity to play a musical instrument. But fortunately, like any other professionals, there are different areas one could continue to be closer to music, besides playing a musical instrument. I was introduced to Classical music when I met my late wife in London and I have been in love with the music. I still continue with my other love for Jazz. I know a number of classical musicians, who also enjoy listening to Jazz. American Jazz is the equivalent of Classical music in Europe. What I would like to emphasize here, is that music is common language for everyone to enjoy, especially when it boils down to pure instrumental music, like Jazz and classical music.
God bless you all! I'm full of admiration for the two of you.
A real inspirational family. Really good question about funding for music at state schools. Been following the families indoor concerts on facebook. Loving the positive content. Just subscribed.
Did they grow up in Sierra Leone?
This family is amazing....the talent is unbelievable
They should make sure that both parents DNA is captured....the music gene is huge
Now you watch this.
Thank you so much.
Truly inspirational.
........made me cry.
Love sissy brother.
Excellence personified!
💕 Love the Kaneh-masons. 🎵 Tonight watched them on BBC Proms: _Carnival of the Animals_ WONDERFUL.
I stumbled upon y’all, and I am so impressed by an amazing family!
Love from Kanneh in Sierra Leone
Lovely! Much admiration! Excellent!
I do so admire and envy your musical family. I wiped out my retirement fund to provide lessons and instrument rentals for 2 grand nieces and one grand nephew, from the ages of 4, til about 11.
It did pay off. The eldest girl put down her violin but went to choral singing. The youngest chose the cello like her brother because she said it "sounded like chocolate." She left off and switched to clarinet then singing.
My grand nephew played his cello into his high school band.
My father played bass in Jazz bands and classical orchestras. He played tuba in marching & circus bands. I played at piano as a kid & switched to classical guitar in college. You can tell Sheku that here in Boston, MA there's one black family with an appreciation for classical music.
My father interested me as a child, watching cartoons with me and telling me that it was actually the music that made me laugh. My sister played the violin for awhile. She took up jazz singing and is quite good. My brother studied the recorder.
I see Sheku in his father, his father’s expression and Sheku are all so much similar. Amazing.
Get a life
Inspiring. Will share with all.
As I watched and listened to this quite informative and revealing interview, I couldn't help wondering what these two wonderful parents think of El Sistema, the music education program that was started by Senor Jose Antonio Abreu in Venezuela and how it might be relevant for young people getting a start in music.
Amazing Dedication to their craft and to each other. ; )
If music goes, we go.
Fight for it .
💜GODSPEED
Being in the moment...involved family ..poignancy
Well done Kanneh Mason parents..BLM..conscious
Excellence commentator:...sorry don’t know her name ..RESPECT...
History of great Black music and musicians actors lives etc
Remember the injustice this family members at times face as individuals. Kadiatu Kanneh has a Welsh white mom and a Sierra Leonean dad, thus biracial and British by birth, her hubby, a British born of Caribbean (Antigua) roots. Their son, Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s passport has just been cancelled hindering him to fulfill his engagement outside UK. Sheku, the BBC music award-winning recipient and the cellist from Prince Harry & lady Meghan’s wedding was made to feel different, unknown and illegal. Our passport office eventually calls it a mistake to be rectified! Was it a mistake? Intentional etc..? It wouldn’t be any different if the English football coach Southgate’s passport was cancelled prior to his sports engagement outside UK, would it? Would that ever happen by mistake? The office wouldn’t even take his calls after several attempts until it came out with this flimsy excuse tantamount to the the Windrush case!
Bravo queridos asi es como se hace...illuminatis
Wonderful people😅!!!!!
Great musicians, great listeners are not racists 😊
The House of Lords would be instantly improved, if either one, ideally both, of these parents, were members of it.
Do you think we will get to the stage where music is not defined by colour, it is just music irrespective of genre whether it is classical, jazz, R&B, blues, skat, country, garage, rock, hard rock, folk, soul, gospel, etc.?
Dear God. Here comes the I dont see color commitee.
@@divestorsingle Ikr, Yawn.
I am afraid you can't.Think of how Blues came to be rock 'n Roll or how Jazz is said to be a "White" man's music. Hmmm
@@divestorsingle If I understand you correctly you think Martin Luther King was wrong in his '! have a dream' speech when he said, "I look forward to the day when people are not judged by the colour of their skin but by their character." Music should be seen in the same way, not exclusive or inclusive to a particular group. If you like it you do, if you don't you don't.
All of this racist cr*p from losers who can't even tell the difference between a treble and a bass clef...
THIS FAMILY STANDS ALONE IN THEIR GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENTS...
YOU DO NOT SHARE IN THEIR GREATNESS BECAUSE OF MELANIN...
Mum would bring lustre to the House of Lords. If you agree, write to the Lords Appointments Commission.
Curriculum!
reading
writing
mathematics
I wonder if they originally came from the West Indies?
2020-2025 or else!~ EXODUS
Can I introduce something controversial here. It's very rare for a lady/man of a mixed
African/European heritage to get married to a black spouse and thereby pass on their talents to children of majority "African" genes/DNA. Very rare. The only couple I can think of is Barrack and Michelle Obama. Great, thank you Kadiatu and Stuart !!! Makes me happy as an African.
Did you intend this to sound so racist? Or was it accidental? There have been fabulous African musicians for a thousand years.