From busking on the streets of Paris to a sold out New York City residency\, Benjamin Clementine is quickly making a name for himself around the world. A prolific partist whose songs are both haunting and beautiful\, brought to life through his charismatic performances. His compositions are musically incisive and attuned to the issues of life but also poetic\, mixing revolt with love and melancholy\, sophisticated lyricism with slang and shouts\, and rhyming verse with prose monologues. \; His vocal range\, ability\, and diction have earned him comparisons to Leonard Cohen and Nina Simone\, and his passionate vocal delivery to that of Edith Piaf. He moved from busking to music halls\, to symphonic music and spoken word\, breaking free from traditional song structure\, inventing his own dramatic and innovative musical territory.
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