Sambambo

Sambambo is a sax-player and singer-songwriter whose bouncy joy for music is infectious. Threading through her performance is a deep love for jazz and Black American Music, and she’s not afraid to be vulnerable on and offstage, talking openly about living with bipolar disorder, existing alongside grief and love in the queer community.

She’s appeared at Greenbelt for the last three years, leading her own band on the Canopy and Glade stages, and also making appearances alongside Palestine’s Bashar Murad and drag queen Flamy Grant. She’s performed at the Royal Albert Hall’s Great Exhibition Road Festival, Gottwood Festival, Ronnie Scott’s, the Southbank Centre, and is a busy session saxophonist up and down the UK.

A Greenbelter since birth, Sambambo still volunteers on one of the Greenbelt stewarding teams. But, she’s also a dynamic saxophonist with a voice like melting butter, and an emerging independent artist whose songs we love.