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My father was an actor. Both of my older brothers are actors. My younger sister is an actress. For me, that's my job; that's my craft. But then all through school and through drama school, I was gigging and running nights and playing in bands, and I just didn't want to let that go.

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The pop industry is so well-practised at channelling young people's creative energy that I think it gets abused.

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It's not in the mainstream media, but across towns, it is amazing how there are small groups of people getting together and forming artistic collectives - they may not be being overtly political, but I'd say by channelling their energy into community projects, that's a valid political statement.

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I'm not that politically educated.

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Westminster politics is very unattractive, and people are channelling political energy into more inward questioning - there are a lot of musicians whose songs are all about feeling, and it's almost like that's the only safe place to express yourself.

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The truth is there's always a hum of people playing folk music in cities.

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When I first moved to London, there was talk of a folk revival, with annoying names like nu-folk that made me feel slightly ill.

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All the adults in my family were actors, so there wasn't much else in terms of role models. I fell in love with that world, being backstage at the theatre.

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It's interesting to marry American musical traditions with the subtlety of English-style storytelling and folk singer-songwriters like Martin Carthy and Bert Jansch - they're two heritages that are distinct but also cross over on so many levels.

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Taking someone else's language and fitting it into your own speech - you learn a lot about other people's brains, doing that.

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Biography

Nationality: South African

Type: Musician

Born: March 14th, 1983

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