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Inspired by a childhood tale, Sampha takes to the sky on 'Lahai'
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The Mercury Prize-winning artist, whose career has been defined by a commitment to centering unfiltered personal narrative within sonic landscapes that resist easy categorization, carries that signature ethos into his latest sound, a work rooted in the rich cultural and creative terrain of Indonesia. The Mercury Prize, a distinction that honors artists who push creative boundaries and redefine the limits of contemporary music, cements the artist’s track record of delivering work that defies conventional expectations, a throughline that makes the classification of this latest project under Music/Other/Other feel like a natural extension of his lifelong refusal to be boxed in by narrow industry definitions of genre or style.
