Denai Moore is a British-Jamaican artist and singer. Her most recent album ''Modern Dread'' was released in July 2020. Moore's musical style is a mix of soul, folk, electronic, and other styles, and she has said she takes influence from

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and

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. She refers to her own music as "genre free". She has been described as "one to watch out for" by ''

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''.

Early life and career

Moore was born in

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, Jamaica, where she learned to play keyboards from her father. Her family moved to

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when she was 10. After she left school, she played in small clubs in East London, and appeared as a guest vocalist on SBTRKT's 2014 album'' Wonder Where We Land''. She later signed with

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. Moore's first single, "The Lake", was produced by

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. Her album ''Elsewhere'' was released in 2015 and produced by Rodaidh McDonald (

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, Savages). Her second album ''We Used To Bloom'' was released in 2017. ''Modern Dread'' was released in 2020; in a review of the album ''

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'' noted that "Moore’s hypnotically sinister beats take the listener on a surrealist journey into a fantasy world."

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Moore, Denai Living people Year of birth missing (living people) People from Spanish Town Jamaican singer-songwriters Jamaican guitarists Jamaican emigrants to the United Kingdom 21st-century Black British women singers Because Music artists