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The Halfway Kid

As The Halfway Kid, British-Sudanese singer and songwriter Saeed Gadir makes music for communing, and finds himself in the midst of a new folk tradition - one that he’s writing in real time. Having experimented with rapping over dubbed out, electronic-heavy R&B, Saeed picked up a guitar in his early 20s and figured out his own way around its six strings. He takes influcnes from artists such as Bob Dylan, Nina Simone and Joni Mitchell, and his writing is peppered with the stoic, blackened humour of Sudan.

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