“My son was cut out of BBC from Harry and Meghan wedding highlights because he is black.”

A cellist who appeared at the Duke and Duchess of Sussex was left out of the BBC highlights package because he was black, his mother claimed.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason was selected to perform at the 2018 ceremony in St. George's Chapel in Windsor.

His mother, Kadiatu, said she was dismayed to see that he was reported by the BBC highlights and was not presented in newspapers the next day.

She suggested that the media did not know how to deal with a black cellist because classical music was usually the preservation of white musicians.

At the Hay Festival in Wales, Ms. Kanneh-Mason said: “When Sheku played at the royal wedding, he was not in any of the BBC highlights that evening.

“The next morning we looked through all the papers. He was not there. So she decided that he would be absent. And we thought what was going on here?

“I think what it was: The gospel choir did what it should do. The preacher did what to do. But a black cellist? A black cellist canceled himself … He doesn't do what it should do, he doesn't do black.

Sheku, the first black winner of the BBC Young Musician Competition, was selected to appear at the wedding after the Duke saw him play at a charity event. He played three pieces of music at the ceremony.

The wedding also contained gospel singers, the Kingdom Choir, which took place from me, and the American preacher RT Rev. Michael Curry, who was the first black bishop of the Episcopal Church.

His sermon, which focused on the redeem of love, was well received and paid considerable attention.

The choir based in London with 30 singers and was founded in 1994 after the wedding fame. They were regularly asked to appear and signed a record deal with Sony Music UK.

Ms. Kanneh-Mason wrote a book to be young, talented and black, about Sheku and his six musically gifted siblings and examined “topics of cultural, racist and national identity”.

She said that Sheku entered the BBC Young Musician competition: “I was in panic because he had a massive Afro at that time and thought: 'If he goes on stage … the judges will not believe that he is a classic musician. Should we make him a bit more formal?'

“In the end he continued as he himself, but we had to think about it: what the presentation was, what the picture was. It is one of these things that are going on all the time.”

Ms. Kanneh-Mason said that her daughter Konya, a pianist, was racistically abused by an audience as a student at the Royal Academy of Music.

She said a man came to her daughter and said: “I think you played beautifully – I don't know because I looked at your body all the time.

“Then he said:” You shouldn't be here because your people take all the jobs from the white musicians who should be here. “

Ms. Kanneh-Mason asked about her children who suffer “microaggression”, said: “They are referred to as microaggression, but they are in fact maxi advressions. They occur all the time. And have to navigate every day.” It is very difficult. “

A BBC spokesman said: “BBC News reported far about Sheku Kanneh-Mason's role at the Royal Wedding 2018, including the news that he had selected for playing, several stories about the development of the day and the effects of his performance.”

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