He can’t read a note of music and learned to play the piano by ear. Now he’s been signed by EMI, after being discovered busking on the streets of Paris.
Poet and musician Benjamin Clementine explains how he bunked off school in London to read dictionaries at the library before becoming homeless at just 16.
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