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Swavey Singer, Rapper, Poet, Song Writer & Producer

N athaniel Letang a.k.a. Swavey was born in 1989 in England and spend the first years of his life in a Norfolk village with his German mother and his Dominican father. The family moved to a small town in Germany called Celle when Nathaniel was only four.

From an early age music has always been around him. His parents dragged him to live reggae concerts and even to dancehall parties that where often organised by other family members or friends.

His parents separated when he was six years old. Three years later Swavey and his mother moved to the city of Hannover also locally known as H -Town to the North part of the city where he spend most of his school years. Growing up in the city he also became aware of the law of the streets.

In Hannover he grew up amongst the West Indian, African and Asian community and also began seeing the social differences between the rich and the poor communities. Swavey describes his growing up in Hannover to be one of the biggest influences on his life, seeing the struggle and the uplifting ways of his community.

Nathaniel was always a very creative person writing poetry, singing along songs and always drawing pictures.

Although having a very good relationship with his mother, he was largely influenced by the conflict between rich and poor, politics, the people around him and the people he saw on TV.

To this day Swavey listens to on of his biggest idols Tupac Amaru Shakur a rapper singer-songwriter and revolutionary, whom Swavey identifies himself with having the same birth date and same radical views.

He is not trying to imitate his idol in any way musically but he would like to have a similar effect on people and raise their consciousness just as Tupac raised his.

Swavey rapped and recorded his first music when he was just 13 years old in a friends room over an instrumental of a well known song on the computer. Because of his lack of recording knowledge and accessibility of facilities or people who could teach him more he left it at that. Like any teenage boy of his age girls and impressing them seamed more desirable at the time.

When Nathaniel was 15 his mother decided to take on a job in the UK to provide a better life for them. This was not an easy decision and so as to not jeopardize his school education it was agreed that Nathaniel moved back to the small town of Celle to finish his school. Where he lived with his grand parents until he completed his high school education.

Nathaniel did not see any future purpose for himself in what he got presented with in school.

However during his time in Celle he found his way to music again. In a session with friends and again on basic PC software he recording his voice over a crump instrumental which every body found to be a great club tune. His friends encouraged him to give copies of his finished song to others to listen too. The feedback was amassing, people liked this new sound and found it extremely interesting.

He realised that he could do more and was wondering what if he could actually created instrumentals and voiced over those?! With him always having been more interested in music then studying, listening to music all day long and wiring up old equipment, this seemed like a good idea.

He started creating music with free music software and software which was given to him by friends. He started writing and recording as much as he could but he didn’t have the guidance to help him explore his ability’s to their full potential.

After finishing school everybody realised that the only thing Swavey would be happy to progress would be a musical carrier.

He was looking for an opportunity to build up his music skills and after lots of research he found out about the Access To Music Academy. The only problem was that the college was in Birmingham so he decided to move to the United Kingdom and start his music production skills development.

He auditioned at the Access to Music Academy in Birmingham and enrolled on the level 2 course for creative music production. His tutors soon found that besides a talent for creating his own unique style of music Swavey had a talent for singing and song writing. His voice sounded unique and he was encouraged to progress his vocal abilities.

Swavey wanted to gain as much knowledge as possible before starting his music carrier and after receiving his L2 Rook School Diploma enrolled in the level 3 course. He has now completed his Advanced Diploma in Creative Music Production and is working hard on his first album.

Throughout the three years at the ATM Academy he developed his own unique music style and established his song writing and vocal abilities to a highly creative, yet professional standard.

Swavey's music productions are mainly hip hop. But he also produces interesting dance, grime, dancehall and indie rock music for which he generally writes this own lyrics.

He is very versatile and comfortable working in all genres, be it underground or mainstream. Hip Hop, RnB, Soul, Indie Rock, Roots Music, Dancehall, Techno and Electro are some of the music genres he produces.

With college now complete, new mixes and tracks are in production with a full time approach to music now in place, Swavey’s creativity and talent will no doubt be shining through in the foreseeable future.

Besides providing track and voice samples for other productions, Swavey is currently working on his hip hop mixtape and debut album which will show his talent to the world and the diversity this artist is capable off. (read less)