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Graeme Blevins is an Australian saxophonist and composer, and is based in London.

Blevins is named and featured on "Mary Jane vs Graeme Blevins" in the album "My 21st Century Symphony" by Brit award winner RAYE.

Blevins has recorded and toured as lead saxophonist in the bands of Mark Knopfler,  Kylie Minogue,  Phil Collins, Robbie Williams, Shirley Bassey, Paloma Faith, Kyle Eastwood  and Jamie Cullum. He is credited in the original recording of Williams' Let Me Entertain You, Minogue's 2012 Abbey Road Sessions of On a Night Like This and Locomotion, and in tracks on Noel Gallagher's Council Skies Album in 2023.

He also performs in the Delta Saxophone Quintet, Jules Buckley Orchestra, Gareth Lockrane Big Band, Guy Barker Big Band  and with Louis Cole. Known primarily as a saxophonist, he is highly sought after in Europe as a live and studio performer in styles ranging from traditional jazz, modern jazz, west end pit bands, and studio work. Blevins is also a multiinstrumentalist and has recording credits on flutes, clarinet, melodica and as an arranger and conductor.

For Seth MacFarlane (creator of Family Guy), Blevins performed on the No One Ever Tells You album which won a Grammy award. He is also credited on many original motion picture soundtracks, including For Once in My Life from the film Judy, Soprano Sax solo, the Valley of the Kings, from the The Jazz Ambassadors, by Michael J. McEvoy, solo saxophonist on the film Don't Look Up (2021), saxophone on Mortdecai (2015), and in the house band of the TV series Ridley.

His own album, "Monochrome", was released on Seneca Records.

Blevins presents workshops and masterclasses at the Royal College of Music, and Guildhall School of Music and Drama. He is also an alumni of the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, Australian National Academy of Music and an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music.

Blevins was a founding member of Hip Mo' Toast, which was recognised as best original jazz group at the West Australian Music Industry Awards, over four consecutive years in the early 2000s. He is also an alumni of the Western Australia Youth Jazz Orchestra.