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As host of Radio 3's J to Z, Jumoké is a champion of contemporary jazz music, and an acclaimed performer herself. As a vocalist, she has appeared at the Royal Albert Hall alongside Dionne Warwick, performed with Bobby McFerrin at Meltdown Festival, sung Handel’s Messiah at the London Arena and performed with the Royal Ballet. In 2019, she became the first woman ever to perform the role of the Evangelist in Bach’s St John Passion performed with the Chorus of Dissent.

Jumoké's Jazz Verse Jukebox, a night of poetry & improvised jazz, had a 7 year residency at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, London. As an actress, Jumoké's credits include Temi Wilkey’s The High Table (Bush Theatre), Zawe Ashton’s For All The Women Who Thought They Were Mad (Hackney Showroom) and Kurt Weill’s Lost in the Stars (Southbank). Television credits include The Holiday programme (´óÏó´«Ã½1) Big Age (Ch 4) and Hard Cell (Netflix). You can hear Jumoké regularly on her Sunday Breakfast programme for ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio London, Inspirit.

Richard is a broadcaster and Church of England parish priest. He was a chorister at Wellingborough public school, and went on to form pioneering pop band The Communards with Jimmy Somerville. During the 1980s The Communards had three UK Top 10 hits, including Never Can Say Goodbye and the biggest-selling single of 1986, Don’t Leave Me This Way.

Richard co-hosts ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 4’s Saturday Live and is regularly seen as a guest panellist on shows such as Would I Lie To You?, Have I Got News For You and QI. He presented two series of ´óÏó´«Ã½ One’s The Big Painting Challenge and a keen tweeter, regularly engaging with his 400k followers on . Richard's parish is in the quintessentially English village of Finedon, Northamptonshire, where two of his ancestors were Vicars in the seventeenth century.

Karen Gibson - AKA “Britain’s godmother of gospel” - is the conductor of London-based The Kingdom Choir, the gospel ensemble that shot to global fame in May 2018 after . Karen has worked with vocal groups for more than 25 years, conducting gospel choirs and workshops all over the world. The Kingdom Choir (which she founded more than 20 years ago) has won multiple awards for its recordings and performances.

Karen also works in a number of schools across London and runs workshops for aspiring gospel conductors in Poland, Norway and Italy. She conducted the in 2016 and has appeared as a gospel specialist on ´óÏó´«Ã½ One’s Songs of Praise and Gareth Malone’s The Choir and The Choir: Sing While You Work on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.

Conductor, organist and broadcaster Anna Lapwood is a familiar voice on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3. Currently Director of Music at Pembroke College, Cambridge, Anna conducts the Pembroke College Chapel Choir, the Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, and the Cambridge Organ Experience for Girls. She also leads the music exchange programme of the Muze Trust, a charity that works to make music accessible to children and young adults in Zambia.

Now performing organ recitals across Europe, Anna released her debut solo album Images in September. Anna has hosted TV coverage of ´óÏó´«Ã½ Young Musician and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Proms this year, alongside founding and conducting the NHS Chorus-19, made up of over 1000 NHS staff from across the UK.

Alison is an award-winning sports broadcaster, who first made her name as a commentator on the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s iconic Test Match Special. She has reported on a variety of sporting events around the world, and was voted Sports Broadcaster of the Year by the Sports Journalists Association in 2014.

Music has always been a much loved part of Alison's life, particularly at Christmas where she would often help lead the music in her childhood church. Alison plays classical and acoustic guitar, sang alto in her school's Chapel Choir, and later joined the Leicester Bach Choir. And just to show that music and sport make good companions, Alison's claim to fame was singing in the choir at the wedding of former England rugby union captain Will Carling when she was 14.

Composer and conductor Ken Burton has directed several of the UK’s leading gospel groups, including the London Adventist Chorale, Croydon SDA Gospel Choir, the Adventist Vocal Ensemble and the Tessera quartet. His session group, the Voquality Singers, has contributed to several film scores, while Ken himself was chorus master for Marvel’s Black Panther movie in 2018.

Ken is also a respected composer whose dual backgrounds in gospel and classical meet often in his choral and instrumental music, which has been performed by choirs and orchestras across the world. He is a regular face (and voice) on ´óÏó´«Ã½ One’s Songs of Praise, and served as a judge on Gareth Malone’s The Choir: Sing While You Work on ´óÏó´«Ã½ Two.