David Mrakpor

David Mrakpor (born c. 1994) is a London-based multi-instrumentalist, performing on keyboards, bass, guitar, drums and vibraphone.

David Mrakpor is part of Blue Lab Beats, as “Mr DM” They won The Innovation Award at Jazz FM Awards 2022, were nominated for Best Jazz Act at MOBO Awards 2021 and are signed to Blue Note Records. The single “Pineapple” has been streamed over ten million times on Spotify. including “My Life (feat James Coleman)” and “Lonely”. He is credited as a performer or producer with multiple artists including Joe Armon-Jones, Nubya Garcia, Moses Boyd, Kojey Radical

Mrakpor began playing musical instruments from the age of three years old Mrakpor gained a degree in Jazz Studies from Middlesex University. J Dilla and Milt Jackson are cited as influences,

Mrakpor plays vibraphone in Brown Penny, a six-piece band led by Mercury-nominated Cassie Kinoshi, and in trumpeter Mark Kavuma’s The Banger Factory, featuring a solo on a track titled “Mrakpor”. He plays keyboards in JD3 and in Jon Onabowu Quartet.

The winner of the Live category at the Abbey Road Studios Music Photography Awards in 2022 was John Lyons' photograph of Mrakpor playing drums.