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‘Attention spans are short. People want that dopamine hit’: Jordan Adetunji, the Belfast boy gunning for Grammys glory
Competing against Beyoncé, Future and others in the melodic rap category, the open-minded young vocalist explains how he ‘manifested’ his success
Standing among legends such as Beyoncé, Future, the Weeknd and Erykah Badu in the nominees for this year’s best melodic rap performance Grammy is Jordan Adetunji ( pictured above), a 25-year-old from Belfast. His brilliant two-minute track Kehlani has the immediacy and instinct of a punk single, as Adetunji slinks around thudding drums to sing a series of chat-up lines – “I like the way your body is, is that too obvious? But everyone took to me and was really nice.” He was inspired by the “breaking-the-rules” feel of his new city’s music scene and a remarkable diffusion of artists he discovered online and in video games, from the Afropop of his mother’s heritage to Joy Division, Drake and the industrial rockers Static-X.
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