Soweto Kinch is an Alto Saxophonist, MC and Hip Hop Artist. He is a jazz musician with a direct cultural and emotional link to the communities that he came from, and this influences his art. He is Black British , of Jamaican and Barbadian descent.  He has a history degree from Oxford University, and that informs his, what is clear from the conversation is that it does not shape who he is.
We suspect he would be more likely to agree with Maya Angelou  "The more you know your history, the more liberated you are."  
In 2019 he released an Album called Black Peril, which told the story of the 1919 Race Riots in the United Kingdom. He followed this with Arts Council funded project that took him to the Docks areas within the cities and Black and minority communities that were targets of white mobs, racism and attack in 1919, but also helped him understand the nature of the way those communities that resisted and fought back.
This first part of the three interviews talks about music, communities, history and the Black Peril project.