Example says his 2007 debut album 'What We Made' n the music industry a "miracle".
Example says his “first album seemed like a miracle”.
The ‘Kickstarts’ hitmaker - real name Elliot Gleave - didn’t ever expect to have this much success in the music industry when he started out a rapper with his 2007 debut 'What We Made' and almost retired after his wife Erin McNaught gave birth to his seven-year-old son Evander - the big brother to his four-year-old son Ennio - but has since regained his stride to get back into the recording studio.
The 40-year-old rapper told the Metro’s Sixty Seconds featurette: “Including my mixtapes and my compilations, it’s my 14th LP. I first started in this industry, my first album seemed like a miracle. I never saw a way I could be a musician. There weren’t any white rappers being signed or rap/hip-hop in the UK like there is now. I was a white kid from Fulham with long hair and a very wonky hip-hop album that flopped. But Ministry of Sound signed me in 2009, which is when I started making dance music and my track ‘Kickstarts’ changed my life. The amount of money I was getting and fans I had, I was on TV and radio. After ‘Changed The Way You Kiss Me’, my ambition went through the roof, so I felt unstoppable. And then my fifth album, ‘Live Life Living’ flopped and I was thinking about giving up music. I’d met my wife, Erin, and she was pregnant with Evander. But ‘All Night’ turned everything around again in 2019. It had 40 million streams.”
Example shared that he knew his good pal, Ed Sheeran was going to be a huge star and told him to not “forget” him when it hits the big time.
He said: “I speak to Ed on email once a week because he doesn’t have a phone. The first time I watched him when he supported me in 2009 at the Waterfront in Norwich, I gave him a bottle of whisky and wrote a note saying, ‘Don’t forget me when you’re playing stadiums.’”
On the same day that Glastonbury welcomed back Margate's adopted sons, The Libertines, Margate itself put on it's very own Leisure Festival as it...
Sheffield's very own all girl group Pretty Fierce are still on a high after the recent release of their debut single - 'Ready For Me'.
Three nights before the end of his current tour Will Varley returned to his home town of Deal to delight a sold out crowd in The Astor Theatre.
With only a few days to go before Portsmouth based songstress and producer WYSE releases her new single, 'Belladonna', we caught up with her to find...
Colorado raised, Glasgow educated and Manchester based Bay Bryan is nothing if not a multi-talented, multi-faceted artist performing as both...
Former Marigolds band member Keelan Cunningham has rediscovered his love of music with his new solo project Keelan X.
Wiltshire singer-songwriter Luke De Sciscio, formally known as Folk Boy, is set to release is latest album - 'The Banquet' via AntiFragile Music on...
Electronic music pioneer and producer Annie Elise says that the release of her first EP - 'Breathe In, Breathe Out' feels "both vulnerable and...
Ryan is a writer eager for a fresh start in London after leaving his hometown...