SES (Brigitte Sesugh Tilley-Gyado) was born in England but spent her early childhood in Nigeria. She moved back 
to England when she was 10 won the all-rounder scholarship to Sherborne School for Girls in Dorset. Music was always a passion but it stood behind other talents which included her academics, drama and athletics which she competed in, winning gold medals at national level.
SES - O ni dodo
'O ni dodo,' sings SES.
She studied classical singing throughout and first picked up a guitar in her teens. Early influences were Miriam Makeba and Nina Simone who were very good friends of her parents, as well as Tracy Chapman, Bob Marley and the Counting Crows. SES studied Modern Languages and Literature at Cambridge University and speaks 5 languages including Yoruba, French, Spanish and Portuguese and composes her songs in them. SES grandmother was Brazilian and she lived in Brazil for a year after Cambridge, learning Afro-Brazilian music.
SES is currently working on her debut album ‘Afro-Folk’. Afro-Folk is the musical style that SES personally envisaged and brought to life while collaborating with Richard Olatunde Baker, the London-based producer and African percussion visionary. Distinctly African, and yet with global appeal, Afro-Folk blends the musical traditions, styles and instruments of Africa and Europe in an innovative way.
Spirituality and "the fact that people can become whatever they dream" greatly influences SES when writing her music. She views her art as a way of inspiring others to reach for their dreams and wrote a novel ‘The House that Biola Built’ about this. This attitude is evident in her music which has been described as nothing you have ever heard!SES performs in London with a variety of African and World Musicians and regularly appears on television and magazines.SES is the capitalized and shortened version of her middle name ‘Sesugh’ (We thank God in the Tiv language).It is pronounced [Sayce].
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