Composer and sound designer Bankey Ojo writes expressive contemporary scores and distinctive soundscapes for award-winning media - multi episodic TV drama, documentary, features, commercials and branded content.

Bankey recently composed original music for the much lauded exhibition The Music Is Black: A British Story, which opened in April 2026 to mark the launch of the new V&A East Museum. (Video taster tour of the exhibition here). He is currently working on the documentary Damilola Taylor: The Last 24 Hours, (BBC / Optomen (All3Media)), directed by double Grierson Award-winning filmmaker Alex Thomas and featuring John Boyega.

For the last few years Bankey has composed the original music for the annual Mercedes AMG Formula 1 team live launch, most recently playing to the sold out audience at the F1 75 Live at the O2 event (2025).

His film composition journey began with scoring Sky TV's 10 part dramedy series Venus vs. Mars. Following credits include the 4 part documentary One Shot: The Football Factory (Expectation for Sky); true crime series Die Zeit Verbrechen (X-Filme Creative Pool and Paramount+ in Germany); the National Geographic films Clotilda: The Return Home and Black Travel Across America; the feature documentary A Story of Bones which premiered at Tribeca and has received numerous award nominations (now available on Prime, Apple TV, Youtube); Return of the Predators (Nat Geo WILD); Magic of Disney Lookout Cay at Lighthouse Point (Nat Geo); Clutch: The NBA Play-offs (ESPN); and the closing titles for the Warner Bros feature Meg 2: The Trench.

For podcast, Bankey scored the true crime series I Am Not Nicholas for BBC Studios and Audible - nominated for multiple awards as well as standing out as Audible's most successful true crime serial since 2018.

Bankey also collaborates with some the most exciting directors in the commercials composing music for campaigns across tech and sports for brands including Beats by Dre x Shepherd Fairy (dir. Gabriel Moses), Beats by Dre x Yinka Illori (dir. Joseph Taylor), Fila x Hailey Beiber (dir. Renell Medrano), Nike and Adidas

Bankey’s approach to composition explores the space where music and sound design overlap, combining this seamlessly with his background in record production to blend a beat driven approach with ambient and textural musical fabric to support and inform contemporary visual storytelling.

As a consummate collaborator Bankey works closely with filmmakers to understand their vision before diving into the heart of a story to discover striking ways to support its telling and to elevate the viewing experience through evocative music and sound.