Love Ssega: Musicians in Residence China
Artist, songwriter and producer Love Ssega was born in London. This enigmatic polymath has managed to carve his own career through the music industry, with songs, visuals and shirts to surprise and excite. He is most widely known for having been the front man, songwriter and founding member of Clean Bandit while still at Cambridge University. The band achieved a UK Top 20 hit with ‘Mozart’s House’. Having left Clean Bandit to complete a PhD in laser spectroscopy, Ssega returned to music as a solo artist. He received PRS Foundation Momentum Music Fund support for his second EP ‘Emancipation!’ (2017), leading to worldwide attention, including from BBC Music Introducing and the BBC World Service. Ssega has performed on Glastonbury’s Other Stage in front of 45,000 people and stages as far as Japan and South Korea. He has also had different pieces of music performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Concert Orchestra.