Three years later he switched to the guitar, increasingly neglecting his studies.
'I had to find a way out of all that, and music was it!' By the age of 13 he had discovered the old school piano and taught himself how to play and write songs. Therefore his father enrolled him in a Public School in London and he left Nigeria at the age of eight to be educated in England. From a young age he was being prepared to follow his father's footsteps in the family concern and was expected to have an academic career. Born on 10 January 1968, Jones spent his early childhood in a large family in a part of Nigeria in the city of Lagos. Keziah Jones is the son of Oshodolamu Sanyaolu Chief of the Yoruba people and successful industrialist and Abiola Sanyaolu.
