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One to watch: Dua Saleh

The Sudanese American singer and Sex Education actor’s forthcoming debut album is a fearless, sensual delight

But the 29-year-old Sudanese American has also been a poet, an activist and – perhaps a natural culmination of these two – has a longstanding career making genre-spanning music that centres queer desire. There, a teenage Saleh led a high school walkout in protest against the disproportionate school-to-prison link for disadvantaged young people, acutely aware of injustice and the need for collective action and care. Their spectacular forthcoming debut album, I Should Call Them, is somewhere in the same league as Ghanaian American star Amaarae in terms of its boisterous, unrelenting ambition.

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