Sampha — live event
!!! SOLD OUT !!! As one of the UK’s most enigmatic artists, twenty-seven year old Sampha has lent his vocal, production and songwriting talents to a range of stand-out releases. From homegrown contemporaries such as SBTRKT, FKA twigs and Jessie Ware, to world-renowned superstars like Drake, Solange, Kanye West and, most recently, on Frank Ocean’s Endless release, Sampha has quietly become an influential and in-demand collaborator. Now, with the forthcoming release of his debut album Process, the time has come for the London musician to tell his own story. The youngest of five brothers, Sampha Sisay grew up in a semi-detached house in the London suburb of Morden after his family moved to the capital from his parent’s hometown of Kenema, Sierra Leone. At the age of three his father brought a piano to the house, something that was to have a huge effect on a young Sampha. Learning to play the piano in the family home, alongside the discovery of digital music production software some years later, introduced Sampha to the deeply resonating and tone-shifting emotional scales that would become a central characteristic of his own music. Growing up, Sampha’s brothers would play him a wide-range of music - from The Strokes to Brian Eno to jazz. Each week his father would bring home a new CD, introducing Sampha to a wider range of sounds, from the beautiful tonal arias of Pavorotti to the harmonic tints of West African Wassoulou music. He was also inspired to create his own music, initially aspiring to make Grime using Reason software, after discovering artists from the South London producer scene like Kwes and Micachu on MySpace. It was through a combination of all these disparate discoveries - rather than any one specific artist - that the concept of chords and composition, and the way those two can be combined to create deep, visceral feeling, became key to Sampha’s own work. But just as importantly, if not more so, it’s Sampha’s raw ability to connect with an audience on a direct, emotional level that made his voice and production work so sought after.
Starts: 2023-11-09T20:00:27Z
Ends: 2023-11-09T22:00:27Z
Where: 125 East 11th Street, New York, New York 10003, United States
Price: $0.0