Shabaka Hutchings is a saxophonist, bandleader, and composer born in 1984 in London. He started studying classical clarinet and saxophone in Barbados.

He is considered a significant part of the 21st century jazz and improvised music scenes, he has led his own group Sons of Kemet which released their two albums, Burn (and won the 2013 MOBO Award for Jazz Act of the Year) and Lest We Forget What We Came Here to Do.

Ever since his, travell to South Africa in January of 2015 Hutchings has released Shabaka and the Ancestors and performed with multiple South African bands including an intimate gig for So Far Sounds with The Brother Moves On.