Tokio Myers

Tokio Myers won the 2017 season of Britain's Got Talent, wowing audiences with his epic, electronica-tinged post-classical piano performances in which he mashed up Debussy with Ed Sheeran and Rag 'n' Bone Man. Born Torville Jones on April 6, 1984 and brought up in Kilburn in central London, he grew up on his Jamaican father's record collection; then, taking up piano as a child, he fell in love with classical music. At the age of 11, he was witness to the fatal stabbing of his school's headmaster, Philip Lawrence, outside the school gates -- an incident that garnered enormous m...