{"id":3667366,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3667366/?format=json","airdate":"2026-06-13T13:30:31-07:00","show":66978,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/66978/?format=json","image_uri":"https://www.kexp.org/filer/canonical/1588181844/22496/","thumbnail_uri":"https://www.kexp.org/filer/canonical/1588181847/22497/","song":"Chosen One","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Etuk Ubong","artist_ids":[],"album":"Live on KEXP from Trans Musicales","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":["KEXP"],"label_ids":["89e0503e-96f0-41b4-835f-2c542b7fcb44"],"release_date":"2025-12-05","rotation_status":"R/N","is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Etuk Ubong performed Live on KEXP at the 2025 Trans Musicales Festival in Rennes, France. This session was recorded December 5th, 2025.\n\nCheck out the full live performance here:\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbFfVLLfvwg&list=RDlbFfVLLfvwg&start_radio=1\n\n\"Etuk Ubong is a Nigerian trumpeter, composer and bandleader.\n\nBorn and raised in Lagos, trumpeter Etuk Ubong (24) first started playing music at the age of 14 and studied under Etop Adolphors and Victor Ademofe. He was enrolled for a performer’s diploma in jazz studies at the University of Cape Town and studied jazz at the Peter King College of Music, and classical music at the Muson School of Music in Lagos. Ubong has performed with world-renowned musicians including Victor Olaiya, Femi Kuti, the Gangbé Brass Band, Pat Harbison, Ansyn Banks, Nduduzo Makhathini and many more. He played at the The Lagos Jazz Festival 2015, the Abuja Jazz Festival 2015 and in the On Mass project headed by Jamie Cullum as part of the London Jazz Festival. He is a member of the International Trumpet Guild and represented Africa at its 2015 conference in Columbus. In South Africa he regularly performs at top live jazz venues like The Crypt, Straight No Chaser, The Orbit and was featured as soloist in the Artscape Youth Jazz Festival 2016.\"\n\nhttps://wearebusybodies.com/artists/etuk-ubong/","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"}