Jordan Mackampa
@ the Love Supreme Jazz Festival
5 July 2024

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Biography

Jordan Mackampa’s aptitude for musical expression was inherited from his mother’s ear. Not a musician herself, she would often fill the rooms of Jordan’s London-based childhood home with a diet of anyone from Curtis Mayfield to Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, and Marvin Gaye, nourishing the ears of an inquisitive, infant Mackampa. But his first, audacious experience with music, which led with him and was his own, took place at a youth centre near his home. “I knew I wanted to perform,” Jordan enthuses. Unsure as to whether it was his spirit, God, or a combination of the two forces, he signed up to perform for the first time at this juncture - a freshman in adolescence at the time.

Juxtaposed with his audacity, is a willingness to always work at his craft - Jordan would lock himself in the recording studios at his youth centre across his teenage years, also learning to perfect instruments such as the drums and guitars. It was around his latter-teen years that he decided to pursue music on his own terms, studying Popular Music Performance at Northampton.