Taylor Bleu's arrival has been anything but conventional. The South London artist spent years actively trying to avoid becoming a musician, despite music being a source of refuge throughout his childhood. At nine years old, he sang solo with a youth Gospel Choir at Croydon's Fairfield Halls, an experience that unlocked something within him. Years later, while working as an usher at the Royal Opera House, he found himself drawn to the beauty of music from an entirely different