Sonny Hall (born 10 June 1998) is an English model, artist and poet. Hall released his debut

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, ''The Blues Comes With Good News'', through Hodder & Stoughton in September 2019. He is signed to Kate Moss's modelling agency.

Early life

Hall was born in

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. From ages three to four, he moved between foster homes with his twin brother, Harvey. They were eventually adopted at age four. And then raised in

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, south west London and Surrey. He did maintain contact with his birth mother. He dropped out of sixth form in 2014. He began using drugs in his teenage years, but fell into an addiction soon after his birth mother died of a heroin overdose in 2015. He rehabilitated at The Cabin Chiang Mai addiction clinic in

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in 2017.

Career

Hall's career started when he was scouted at a gig in Camden Town circa 2014. In 2015, he modelled in British fashion photographer Nick Knight's fashion film, ''Yungsters''. Hall first began writing in 2017 when he was in rehab in Thailand. He shortly began posting his own poetry on his personal Instagram account. Hall self published and released his debut poetry collection ''The Blues Comes With Good News'', in April 2019 which sold over 1.5 thousand copies with its first edition in just six months. A subsequent 2nd Edition was published in September 2019 by British publishing house Hodder & Stoughton. He consequently was hired by British fashion designer Christopher Bailey for one of his

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campaigns alongside model

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. Hall's Instagram also caught the attention of British singer

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who starred him in her music video for her smash hit single "

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". Hall collaborated with friend and film director Jim Longden, where he played the lead role in Longden’s directing debut, To Erase A Cloud. Hall has been remarked increasingly well for his Poetry, he spoke at Trinity College, Cambridge University in March 2023, speaking on tradition in poetry, confession and form.

Personal life

In 2020, shortly before the

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, Hall began dating British singer Celeste.

References

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