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Kae Tempest (Born on the 22 Dezember 1985 in Westminster)

Kate tempest was born in 1985 shortly after her family moved to Brockley, south-east London. They grew up the youngest of 5 children in the household. Before training as a lawyer, their father worked in construction, their mother taught English as a foreign language. They were exposed to literature from an early age. In an interview with the Guardian, they spoke about this: “My dad is very poetic and tells long stories that never resolve themselves. My aunt and uncle were both artists and she was quite a role model – she was very serious about her work, and I remember her talking about the struggle of being a woman making art."

Kate Tempest released their first album in 2014 called Everybody down, not to long after they won the Mercury prize in the same year. The next year she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and in 2016 their novel The Bricks That Built The Houses, which won the Sunday Times Bestseller. They continued their career as a Rapper and Poet publishing four more albums and many singles . Their most popular songs are firesmoke, more pressure and no prize.

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