'They're the perfect couple': Harry and Meghan's wedding cellist wowed 1.9 billion people, then went home to study
Plain text size Larger text size The text size is very large You can feel how quickly Sheku Kanneh-Mason’s star is rising when he tells you that his days as a music student ended less than 24 hours ago. After performing a final recital for his advanced diploma at London’s Royal Academy of Music the night before, the 23-year-old British cellist was free to continue his stint as one of the hottest properties in classical music. Credit: Today, he’s sitting in a corner office at his record company headquarters in King’s Cross, ready to talk about a new album and an Australian tour. He was wearing black jeans and a Paul Smith monochrome shirt with a pattern that, on closer inspection, was made up of hundreds of tiny faces. The old British menswear statesman and young cellist are both Nottingham natives and have become close friends. Kanneh-Mason was wearing a Paul Smith suit when he appeared and has lent his photogenic face to one of the label’s advertising campaigns. Even if you don’