Award winning soprano Tinuke Olafimihan was born in London of Nigerian and Welsh parents. After studying at the National Opera Studio in London she went on to make her debut in Les Hugeonots at the Royal Opera House. Tinuke was subsequently invited to give a Young Artists' Recital at Covent Garden and has since returned to the Royal Opera House appearing in Die Zauberflote (Pamina, Papagena) and the award winning productions of Mitridate (Ismene) and Porgy & Bess (Clara).

Internationally her opera engagements have included Le Nozze di Figaro at Aix-en-Provence and in Amsterdam, Dido in Dido and Aeneas at the Opera Comique, Paris. She has sung principal roles in La Baltasara and the Indian Queen at the Glasgow International Early Music Festival, the title role in Il Rappresentazione di Anima e Corpo at the London International Opera Festival. She has also sung in the world premiers of Param Vir's "Snatched By The Gods" in Amsterdam and at the Munich Biennale and Nigel Osbourne's "Terrible Mouth" at Almeida Opera, London.

On the concert platform Tinuke has performed at the Albert Hall, St John's Smith Square, the Barbican, QEH, Symphony Hall Birmingham, Philharmonic Hall Liverpool, with conductors such as Sir David Willcocks, Carlo Rizzi, Nikolaus Hamoncourt, Andrew Parrot, Robert Shaw and Andrew Litton. Tinuke has made numerous recital, oratorio and opera broadcasts for BBC Radio and TV, Classic FM, Swiss, French, Brazilian, Turkish, Nigerian and Canadian Radio and TV.

Tinuke has made several recordings notably Maria (West Side Story) on the JAY label, the Saint-Saens Requiem with the London Philhamonic for CALA Records. Tinuke's recording of Eliza Doolittle (My Fair Lady) for JAY won The Gramophone Awards for Best Recording for Music Theatre.