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  Celeste interview: 'After my father died, I had so much more drive to do something I cared about'

  Celeste meets me in the café at the front of The Premises, a rehearsal studio in Hoxton that celebrates its prestigious clientele with signed photos all over the walls. The 25-year-old, full name Celeste Waite, isn’t famous enough to be up there herself yet, with just one EP and a handful of singles out there so far, but already there are clear signs she isn’t far off.Just over her right shoulder, there’s Michael Kiwanuka. She’s about to tour Europe as his support act, sharing with him an old-sc

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  Natalie Prass interview: I had to transform myself into a guy to do what I wanted

  To the long list of people inconvenienced by Donald Trump’s presidency, we can now add Natalie Prass fans. The 32-year-old musician from Richmond, Virginia, released a stunning, self-titled debut album in early 2015 — beautifully ornate music draped in strings and horns that harked back to the classic soul of Dionne Warwick, Curtis Mayfield and Dusty Springfield’s Memphis recordings. The usual tours and festival appearances followed wide critical acclaim.

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  Five tracks to hear this week (March 16-22)

  Leon Bridges, who looked and sounded like a Sixties soul man preserved in aspic when he released his first album in 2015, appears to be advancing gradually through the decades as he returns. Two new songs online now, Bet Ain’t Worth the Hand and Bad Bad News, introduce some modern jazziness and a rich Curtis Mayfield feel to his sound. A-list producer Mark Ronson now has his own record label, Zelig, and the first signing is Brooklyn singer-songwriter King Princess.

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  Childhood review: Frontman’s father adds to more mature sound

  Childhood frontman Ben Romans-Hopcraft’s father Robin could be found to his left, on the trumpet. Perhaps it was the sound of dad’s childhood that the band were replicating on their second album, this summer’s Universal Light. Romans-Hopcraft, now styled in a retro brown suit by acclaimed menswear designer Grace Wales Bonner, has found his falsetto, and today has more in common with Shuggie Otis and Curtis Mayfield than today’s indie rockers.

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