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It is the story of a singer who begins on the subway.
But Benjamin Clementine is much more than that: it is a composer in motion.
A fantastic showman.
Many see it as the ultimate soul musician to reach the masses, an artist prepared to take hostage the heart of your audience.
His weapon of seduction is an eternal recipe: atypical piano and voice.
It's already a star in France and the UK and has not yet published their first album.
Its peculiar life of Ghanaian British parents who moved to Paris and had to beg to survive, to jump to fame last week without going further act during the parade of Burberry Prorsum catwalk in London, totaling more value Clementine, acting for the first time in Spain in the Sea of Music on Tuesday, July 22.
It will be from 21.30 hours in the Cathedral.
Some few, they stay in the romantic dimension of the life of Benjamin Clementine, transforming his life precarious period in the fairy tale that never was and doing its main feature.
His story is both poignant because at age 20, after having conflicts with his roommate, he moved to Paris, where for a time he practiced routine of sleeping rough in the subway stations of the city.
The sad story is reflected in his music, full of feelings, loneliness, and a firm domestic unrest.
It was discovered by a French independent label partner Ekleroschock singing in the subway covers from the likes of James Brown, Nina Simone or Bob Marley.
After Benjamin began performing in small venues in Paris.
Soon achieved recognition in the local scene and is finally known as The French's Inglés revelation.
Waste that urban folklore, one must focus on what is really out of the ordinary: the emotional discharge of his songs.
Cornerstone is his first EP album, only three songs, his voice and a piano are enough to move deep fibers, there is all the feeling he has lived and knows to be very clear in the lyrics: I am lonely, in a box of stone , this is the place I know I belong.
In December, after his participation in the BBC's Jools Holland, I act on the Trans Musicales de Rennes, where he was invited to the residence Outdoors for a week.
In 2010, it was reported Stromae same challenge and the same place.
Three years later, the darling of Brussels Trans again being a big star.
Her story has just begun to be written.
Benjamin Clementine is currently working on his first album.
It is one of the biggest bets of the festival.
Currently Benjamin Clementine is 25 and his future is full of plans, including a tour with the BBC Concert Orchestra.
Definitely need to follow closely, this is like a volcano that has just erupt.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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