Victor Dey Jr
Bio
Victor Dey Jr. (born in 1980) is a pianist and keyboardist from Ghana.
Dey Jr. graduated from the University of Ghana with a bachelor's degree in psychology and English. He later pursued jazz studies at the Berklee College of Music in the US in 2006. Dey Jr. began his music career at the age of 12. He grew up in the UK, Algeria, and later in Ghana.
His music is a mixture of traditional Ghanaian rhythms and modern jazz.
In 2014, Dey Jr. was awarded a Musician of the Year accolade at Ghana's Vodafone Music Awards. Victor has performed in Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Sierra Leone, The Netherlands, Burundi, Ethiopia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates and the US.
He has played with such artists as Stevie Wonder, Mike Philips, Courtney Pine, Hugh Masekela, Gyedu Blay Ambolley, Ebo Taylor, Nicolas Genest and Marcus Wyatt.
In 2016, CNN featured him on the African Voices programme.