ÉGO

Eganam “ÉGO” Segbefia is a NYC-based trumpeter who began busking at Grand Central in 2015 with MTA’s Music Under New York program and has since performed at venues including Madison Square Garden and Carnegie Hall. He won the New York Knicks’ inaugural That’s NY Talent halftime competition. Born in Lagos, Nigeria to Ghanaian parents, he immigrated to the U.S. at age ten and grew up in the Bronx, where music became his voice. He earned a Master’s in Classical Trumpet from the Manhattan School of Music and won the Eisenberg-Fried Concerto Competition. Now a member of the United Nations Orchestra, he performs and mentors young musicians, guided by his motto: “Inspiration Without Perspiration is Hallucination.”