Sampha Sisay, who goes by only his first name, is a British alternative R&B
artist known for lending his vocals to tracks by Drake, Kanye West, SBTRKT and
Jessie Ware. In 2017 he won the Mercury Prize for his debut album Process, which
went to number seven on the UK's Official Albums Chart. Born on 16 November 1988
in London to parents who had emigrated from Sierra Leone in the 1980s, he
learned to play musical instruments as a child and started working as a grime
MC. Producing with the name Kid Nova in 2007, he met record producer Kwes and
signed with the iconic Young Turks labe...