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Rex Orange County

(1998) Singer

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Rex Orange County is a singer.

Quick Facts About Rex Orange County

Born: May 4, 1998
Profession: Singer

About Rex Orange County

[Wikidata] English musician, recording artist... | [Wikipedia] Alexander James O'Connor, known professionally as Rex Orange County, is a British singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Grayshott, England. NPR Music's Zoë Jones has described O'Connor's music as "a bright blend of hip-hop, jazz, and bedroom pop".

Quotes by Rex Orange County

I grew up in a small village on the border of Hampshire and Surrey. When people ask, I tend to say that…

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Border

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I met a lot of label people at the start of doing this music thing, and I just realised soon that it…

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Day

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I think there's no limit to ambition, and if you want something, you can make anything happen, so go for it.

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Ambition

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Alex Tumay is a recording engineer who works a lot with Young Thug and a load of other rappers, like Quavo. I'm…

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Load

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I'm afraid of peacocks.

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Afraid

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I want to make myself better and get working with some of my biggest influences and make the best music I can.

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Best

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I want nice songs. I don't want to worry about where I have to place songs on a playlist. I'm looking to…

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Great

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I don't think I'd call myself a rapper.

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Call

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I'm sure there's some awful video of me singing when I was, like, 13 or 15 at my old school that my…

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Dad

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A lot of music influences me in other ways than this, but I've always taken a lot of influence from Stevie Wonder,…

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Always

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The first person on the BBC that played me was Huw Stephens. I was sat around my laptop with my girlfriend and…

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Family

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I'm usually just writing lyrics alone in my room, but I'm happy to be producing and writing chords anywhere.

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Alone

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Anyone can put anything out at any point and make anything by themselves.

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Anything

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'Apricot Princess' is like an inside album. You can listen to the album and feel all of those emotions within one night.

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Emotions

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I like being at the front - it's where I'm meant to be.

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Being

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I won't be the kind of artist speaking in riddles all the time - it will be lyrics that make sense the…

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Art

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The first Nardwuar video I watched was, funnily enough, the first Odd Future one.

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Enough

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I realized that you can achieve so much at the front of a stage, releasing the music yourself and being something more…

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Achieve

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I love things that are really linear and perfect and simple.

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I love

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School did stress me out, like it does for a lot of young people. I didn't like having to do work that…

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Care

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I find myself without Internet a fair bit in the house I live in in Streatham.

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Find

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Some people can work on the road, and that's incredibly impressive... maybe I'm not working myself hard enough.

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Enough

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I've never been uncomfortable sharing stuff. It's almost the opposite. I'll say the most blunt, brutally honest thing about any situation.

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Brutally honest

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I feel like collaborating is something I need to try more of.

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Feel

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I'm not actually as emotional as everybody thinks. The songs are super personal, but that's just one side of me, and I…

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Everybody

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