Camilla George (born 1988) is a Nigerian-born British jazz saxophonist, composer and band leader, who has lived in West London, England, since childhood.
[2] George has played in collaboration with many notable musicians in the course of her career, among them Nubya Garcia, Shabaka Hutchings, Tom Harrison, Ernest Ranglin, Courtney Pine, Zara McFarlane, Moses Boyd, China Moses, Tony Kofi, Jason Yarde and Soweto Kinch, and others, in addition to forming her own group, the CGQ (Camilla George Quartet).
[3][4][5][6] Camilla George was born in 1988 in Eket, Nigeria, "the only child of a British-Nigerian mother, a psychotherapist, and a Grenadian father, a tailor who worked on Savile Row", and when she was about three years old, the family relocated to England.
[4] Thanks to her parents' record collection, she grew up listening to a wide range of music, including highlife, Afrobeat and jazz, by such musicians as Fela Kuti, Jackie McLean and Charlie Parker.
[14] Her third studio album, Ibio-Ibio, enabled by a PRS Foundation Momentum award, celebrates her tribe, the Ibibio people of southern Nigeria, and their original culture and religion.