La Dolce Diva

March, 2008

This south London native melds the Streets' beats and story­telling with Billy Bragg's blue-collar balladeering. His debut album, Panic Prevention, was short-listed tor Britain's pres­tigious Mercury Award, and the U.K. music bible NME namedhim solo artist of the year, ahead of Jams Cocker and Thom Yorke. For a 22-year-old who just a few years ago was strumming his acoustic bass for friends, 2007 was the year of a lifetime.You gained a broad audience through the Internet. How did you realize it...