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âI grew up in an era when men werenât encouraged to be vulnerableâ: Jamie Cullum. Photograph: Emilio Naranjo/Rex/Shutterstock
âI grew up in an era when men werenât encouraged to be vulnerableâ: Jamie Cullum. Photograph: Emilio Naranjo/Rex/Shutterstock
The musician, 41, on what he owes Michael Parkinson, the joys of cultural freedom and why heâll feel nervous when heâs finally able to perform again
Sat 19 Dec 2020 09.00 EST
Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 07.12 EST
Growing up
in a very provincial
village near Swindon, in Wiltshire, I struggled to articulate why my family was different. My parents were immigrants. They had it drilled into them to be as British as possible, live a very British life, observe the Britishness of their existence. I think they were culturally cauterised. A mixture of people came in and out of my household from my fatherâs Prussian Jewish contingent, who for a large part of their UK life were often too frig