Trenton Birch

Trenton Birch is a musician from cape Town, South Africa who heads a band Trenton and Free Radical. He grew up in Johannesburg and spent the rest of my childhood years in Kenya, Nigeria and Bahrain and Cape Town which became his home.

He met my guitarist and song writing partner, Marco, while living in England. He managed to persuade him to move to Cape Town and they began working together for the past years. He is German but grew up in the amazing island of Ibiza.

Together with the group, they have released singles such as ‘Sunless Sundays’ (2009), ‘Barefoot Hope’ (2010), ‘Mr. Mandela’ (2010) and ‘Tomorrows Day’ (2011). In 2016, they released a single titled '‘No Ceiling’ and were writing and recording a new album.

Trenton is also the director of The SAE Institute, one of the country’s largest and most established audio, video and animation higher education institutions and the force behind Black Mango and the Breathe Sunshine African Music Conference

During his four years at the helm of SAE, Trenton’s initiatives have seen enrollment in the school more than triple. SAE’s celebrity driven scholarship programme, the brainchild of Trenton, has included partnerships with major music icons Ready D, Black Coffee, Young Guru (Jay Z’s engineer) and most recently AKA with the recently launched AKA Scholarship being the most successful of these initiatives to date, drawing more than five times the normal applications. SAE is the largest provider of creative media education in the world with over 50 campuses in 24 countries.

All these accomplishments have been achieved in past four years when Birch returned to South Africa after an eight year escapade in London that also saw him working in places like Ibiza, New York, Amsterdam and Berlin on various projects including promoting Johnny Clegg and releasing Goldfish’s first album internationally.