Chief Xian aTunde Adjuah [formally Christian Scott] is a two-time Edison Award-winning, Doris Duke Award in the Arts winning, six-time Grammy-nominated, sonic architect, multi-instrumentalist, composer, producer, and designer of innovative technologies and musical instruments (like the Stretch Music App, Siren, Sirenette, tilted bell Christian Scott models as well as the Adjuah Trumpet and Chief Adjuah’s Bow). He is the founder and CEO of the Stretch Music app company and record label. Adjuah is Chieftain of the Xodokan Nation, of the Maroon tribes of Afro New Orleans, as well as the current Grand Griot of New Orleans. A direct descendant of New Orleans cultural royalty, He is the grandson of Louisiana luminary and legend, the late Big Chief Donald Harrison Sr., Grand Griot of New Orleans and Guardians Institute founder Herreast Harrison, the nephew of jazz innovator NEA Jazz Master saxophonist-composer, Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. Chief Adjuah’s identical twin brother, Kiel Adrian Scott, is an award-winning writer and director, and Spike Lee protege, known for his acclaimed short films and for directing Peabody Award–winning and NAACP Image Award–winning television series. Together, the brothers share a creative mission to elevate cross-cultural storytelling and innovation across music, film, and culture. Since 2002, Adjuah has released fourteen critically acclaimed studio recordings, four live albums, and one greatest hits collection. He is widely recognized as the progenitor of “Stretch Music,”. A 21st-century approach that asserts genre blindness and an ethnomusicological approach to limitless fusion that heralded NPR to hail him as “Ushering in a new era of Jazz" with JazzTimes Magazine marking him as "Jazz's young style God”, “the architect of a commercially viable fusion” and both I-ROCK-JAZZ and AllAboutJazz.com citing him as the “The LeBron James of Jazz”. He has collaborated with Prince, Mos Def (Yasin Bey), Talib Kweli, Thom Yorke, McCoy Tyner, Marcus Miller, Flea, Eddie Palmieri, Robert Glasper, as well as heralded poet and musician Saul Williams. His innovations have garnered him a PBS American Masters, JAZZFM's Innovator of the Year Award, Jazz Journalist Association Trumpeter of the Year, The Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, The Paul Ackett Award, The Echo: Deutscher Musikpreis, The Changing Worlds Peace Maker Award, a host of Downbeat Magazine’s Critics and Readers Poll's wins for Best Composer, Best Trumpeter and Best Electric/Jazz-Rock/Contemporary Group. Induction into the inaugural constituency of the Black Genius Brain Trust, an honor he shares with his Peabody, and NAACP Image award-winning identical twin brother writer-director Kiel Adrian Scott. Recently Adjuah played himself in the hit films Bill and Ted Face the Music and Issa Rae’s The Photograph as well as becoming the face of the first ever BMW XM.