This month we hear from musician Donald Gamble, in the first of a series of guest posts exploring some of the many varied career pathways within the music industry.
Donald Gamble is a world music percussionist who has had a long and interesting career as a working musician and music tutor.
He was born in London as a child of parents who were part of the Windrush Generation.
His parents arrived in the early 1960s from the Caribbean Island, Jamaica, which was at the time part of the British Empire until the island gained its independence in August 1962.