14 year old singer songwriter Katy Menditta is the most interesting person of Ed Cooke, Grandmaster of memory and founder of memrise. Hear her sing about love in the video below. A song that her nominee Ed Cooke describes as ’empirical evidence that emotion does not come from experience.”
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Gina Birch is the most interesting person of Caroline Coon “I was completely besotted with conceptual art, land art and fine art and Punk was really interwoven for me. It was new way of looking at the world, a way of finding my own voice that didn’t subscribe to the status quo.” Gina Birch is […]
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Since crashing the scene in the early 90’s and winning the Mercury Music Prize in 1999, Singh has been relentlessly carving his individual sound, reformulating influences from East and West into the audiosphere. Who is your most interesting person? John Pearse, tailor
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Rico Rodriguez is the most interesting person of Jerry Dammers One of Rico Rodriguez’s defining musical moments is his trombone riff in The Specials’ track, A Message To You Rudy, which he recorded with Jerry Dammer in 1979. Rico’s life and career spans Cuba, Jamaica and London. He was taught by Don Drummond who is widely regarded […]
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Jerry Dammers is the most interesting person of Gina Birch “It would be nice if musicians today would would voice their political concerns. We came in the wake of Punk where people were writing about real things, about real lives, real issues. Punk was protest music really. Looking back on it now, we are part […]
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Fittingly, it began on a road trip My favourite university lecturer became my best friend, his name was Suade Bergemann. It was 2004 and we were on a road trip driving through the Alps and Suade was being fascinating, as usual. He was telling me about the geology of the land around us and how it […]
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