Kamasi Washington 出生于洛杉矶，擅长多种乐器，身兼制作人。自幼在父亲 Rickey Washington 指导下学习爵士乐，高中时便与 Stephen “Thundercat” Bruner、Ronald Bruner, Jr. 及 Cameron Graves 组建了自己的第一支乐队 Young Jazz Giants。此后他又在 UCLA 学习民族音乐学，并获得与 Snoop Dogg、Raphael Saadiq 等大牌同台演出的机会。2015年的首张专辑《The Epic》引起评论界轰动，成为全世界公认的当年最佳之一。2017年他的 EP《Harmony of Difference》还作为惠特尼美术馆艺术双年展的一部分登场。 　　 　　Washington was born in Los Angeles, California, United States, to musical parents and educators, and was raised in Inglewood, California. He is a graduate of the Academy of Music of Alexander Hamilton High School (Los Angeles) in the Beverlywood neighborhood. Washington next enrolled in UCLA's Department of Ethnomusicology. There, he began playing with numerous faculty members such as Kenny Burrell, Billy Higgins and band leader and trumpeter Gerald Wilson and released the Young Jazz Giants album in 2004. He has since played along with a musically diverse group of musicians including Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Horace Tapscott, Gerald Wilson, Lauryn Hill, Nas, Snoop Dogg, George Duke, Chaka Khan, Flying Lotus, Thundercat, Francisco Aguabella, the Pan Afrikaan People's Orchestra and Raphael Saadiq. Washington played saxophone on Kendrick Lamar's To Pimp a Butterfly and released a solo album, The Epic in 2015.