Behind the scenes with YolanDa Brown one of the headliners of the first ever Riyadh Jazz Festival, Saudi Arabia 2024. Line up included Chaka Khan, Masego, Cat Empire, Fulana, Kokoroko and many others.

YolanDa Brown OBE DL is a double MOBO Award winning artist, her music is a delicious fusion of reggae, jazz and soul. She has toured with The Temptations, Jools Holland and collaborated with Dave Stewart from Eurythmics, Snarky Puppy’s Bill Laurance, Kelly Jones from Stereophonics and she’s currently composing music for the iconic Sesame Street.

YolanDa was awarded an OBE for services to music, music education and broadcasting in the 2023 New Year Honours List by his Majesty the King. In July 2022, YolanDa was appointed Chair of BPI - the representative voice for UK record labels and organises The BRIT Awards & Mercury Prize.

A champion for the importance of music education and the Music Week Women in Music Award Winner, YolanDa is Chair of Youth Music, sits on the Arts Council National Council, is a trustee of the PRS Foundation, an ambassador for the Prince’s Trust and London Music Fund. In 2021, she was invited by the Department of Education to sit on the advisory panel of the National Plan for Music Education.

A BAFTA nominated broadcaster her eponymous series for CBeebies, "YolanDa’s Band Jam", won the RTSNW award as Best Children’s Programme. She’s a presenter on Songs of Praise and BBC Young Jazz Musician of the Year. Over on the airways, she hosts YolanDa Brown on Saturday on Jazz FM, the best classical music every Sunday on Scala radio, Radio 4’s ‘Loose Ends’ with Clive Anderson and across many shows on Radio 2 and Magic FM.

YolanDa loves to drive fast cars around race tracks in her spare time and can rattle off a Rubik’s Cube in five minutes (on a good day).

A real renaissance woman set to reach new heights.

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