The daughter of a Trinidadian and Tobagonian film director and a Guyanese
mother, Nubya Garcia was born in London in 1991. After studying violin and viola
at the London Symphony Orchestra School, the young musician began learning the
saxophone at the age of 10 and followed specialist training at the Royal Academy
of Music, then at the Berklee College of Music summer school in Boston.
Graduating from Trinity College London in 2016, she began her career as a leader
the following year with the album Nubya's 5ive, released by the Jazz re:freshed
label and followed by festival perform...