The bookies favourite to win the Mercury music prize, FKA twigs is an artist whose hymnal electronica defies easy classification
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Who? Tahliah Debrett Barnett was born in Gloucestershire, and thats about as pedestrian as her CV gets. Immediately establishing herself as an alien artefact in the video for Water Me, the former backing dancer was immediately categorised as an alt-R&B artist, although Barnett has spoken since about the classification of her music, suggesting journalists are defining her based on race than her music style, which shares threads with classical, hymnal and electronic music. Signed to XL imprint Young Turks, her stage name originally just twigs refers to the clicking sound that her bones make when dancing.
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