Santan Dave

I want to help people struggling with whatever it is they're going through.

— Santan Dave

Music and football are two industries where black people excel, because talent is undeniable. You can't deny an amazing voice. You can't…

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I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.

— Santan Dave

For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being…

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It was a pleasure to work alongside Sir David Attenborough and Hans Zimmer.

— Santan Dave

I like soundtracks. I love Hans Zimmer, the score for 'The Dark Knight Rises' is one of my favourites. I also like…

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I couldn't care less about criticism.

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I started my first year at college on May 10 2015, and dropped my first video, 'Black Box' on the same day,…

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I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.

— Santan Dave

Prison hosts a lot of normal people, a lot of family men who were caught in a tight situation or in a…

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I think it's crucial to go out and explain to people who you are and where you come from, your hardships -…

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When it gets to that time to tell your mum that you're not going to university, which has been her grand plan…

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Black is confusing. Where does the line start and stop with what is black and what isn't black? People that are mixed-race,…

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I learnt what I am not good at: listening, staying focused, turning up on time, following orders... I realised that I was…

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The biggest lesson that I've learnt is that things can change so quickly, never get used to one thing because everything can…

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We're all just humans at the end of the day.

— Santan Dave

Grime is its own sound. There's a lot more to it. It's like a sound, culture, style - the way that they…

— Santan Dave

I've always had a different ear for music.

— Santan Dave

A very bland eleven-year-old, playing computer games. I went to a local primary school but I wasn't anything special or anything insanely…

— Santan Dave

The moment I started learning to play the piano it changed my whole dynamic with music and with school. Suddenly I had…

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I don't think that one moment in people's life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.

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Grime must be its own genre.

— Santan Dave

There was a sort of chain in school. I wasn't, like, mad at the top, but I wasn't right at the bottom,…

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I like making music when no one's really there, so it's just you and yourself: you're more free.

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Sometimes I sit down and I think 'Do I regret this? Do I regret that?' And I feel like everything makes this…

— Santan Dave