Dev Hynes: ‘Puff Daddy somehow got my number… it was pretty strange’

The east London musician talks about his album Negro Swan – and why he prefers playing football to being on stageDevonté Hynes – Dev for short – was born in 1985 and raised in Ilford, east London. In the mid-2000s he was part of the clamorous nu-rave trio Test Icicles, and later, under the alias Lightspeed Champion, he took a detour into country-tinged indie-pop. Moving to New York, he began producing for artists such as Sky Ferreira, Carly Rae Jepsen and Solange. Since...

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