First sight: Loick Essien

Model, actor and musical polymathWho is he?A 20-year-old music biz polymath, the Londoner is ready to fill British urban music's yawning Usher and Michael Jackson-shaped solo male singer gap.Didn't I see him on TV somewhere?Yes, probably. He had a decent career as model and actor before secondary school – including childhood appearances in Doctors and Holby City – and after comedian Richard Blackwood cast Essien to play a younger version of himself in a video, Essien ended up spending h...

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