IAMDDB!

“We all go through intense feelings and experiences and shit”

Coming third in the BBC’s Sound of 2018 list, all eyes are eagerly awaiting Manchester rapper-singer, IAMDDB’s next move. With her smooth intermingled hip-hop and urban jazz melodies, it’s no surprise why. Born Diana Debrito – hence the clever name, IAMDDB, takes inspiration from Samba, Bob Marley, and Nat King Cole. After her trip to Angola (a west-coast country of south-central Africa) for several months, becoming heavily involved in the local jazz scene, following a bad breakup. After being fully immersed in the music scene, she returned to the UK, refreshed, healed, and inspired to make music. Her Hoodrich Vol 3 mixtape released in 2017, conveying an artist at ease with a deeply expressive theatricality. “We all go through intense feelings and experiences and shit,” she said in a recent interview with Crack magazine, “and if my music can help somebody get through something, then my job’s done. I’m just a vessel to make people feel better.”

IAMDDB is notorious for shutting down many festival stages with what she calls, “trap infused jazz”. If this wasn’t enough, just when it didn’t seem as if the budding star could soar any higher, following her recent back and forth with Steff London, she blessed listeners with her latest offering, Flightmode Vol. 4. IAMDDB’s most recent tour collaboration with Red Bull Music, named Flightmode Live, after her forthcoming mixtape sold out only a mere minutes of being listed online, which also, is no surprise. So, if you’re looking for a little change from the garbage on the radio, take IAMDDB on for a spin.

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