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Instagram and a dessert to die for – the cellist shares his recent discoveries
The cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason was born in Nottingham in 1999. Aged 17, he won the 2016
BBC Young Musician competition and in 2018 played at the wedding of
Prince Harry and
Meghan Markle. He was a member of the majority black and minority ethnic Chineke! Orchestra, and was awarded an MBE earlier this year. His acclaimed second album, Elgar, was released in January. Kanneh-Mason and his six siblings, all of whom are also musicians, feature in a new documentary, Imagine: This House Is Full of Music, airing on Sunday 12 July on BBC One at 6pm, then on iPlayer.