English poet, musical artist, novelist and playwright
Kae Tempest
Tempest at Haldern Pop Festival in 2017
Born
1985 (age 38–39)[1]
Westminster, London, England
Other names
Excentral Tempest[2]
Occupation(s)
Poet, playwright, rapper, recording artist
Notable work
Hopelessly Devoted, Wasted, Brand New Ancients, Everybody Down,Hold Your Own, The Bricks That Built The Houses, Let Them Eat Chaos
Musical career
Genres
Spoken word, hip-hop
Instrument(s)
Vocals
Labels
American Recordings, Fiction, Big Dada, Ninja Tune, Lex
Musical artist
Website
www.kaetempest.co.uk
Kae Tempest[3][4] (formerly Kate Tempest)[5][6] is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.
At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, they won the Ted Hughes Award for their work Brand New Ancients.[7] They were named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society,[8] a once-a-decade accolade. Tempest's albums Everybody Down[7] and Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize.[9] The latter's accompanying poetry book (also titled Let Them Eat Chaos) was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category.[10][11] Their debut novel The Bricks That Built the Houses was a Sunday Times best-seller and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Breakthrough Author. They were nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards.[12] Tempest came out as non-binary in 2020, using pronouns they/them.[13]
^Tempest, Kae (2020). On Connection. London: Faber & Faber. Bio inside back cover. They were born in London in 1985 where they still live.
^"Phrased & Confused". The Hub. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
^Murray, Robin (6 August 2020). "Kate Tempest Changes Name To Kae Tempest". Clash. Retrieved 7 August 2020.
^Kae Tempest [@kaetempest] (6 August 2020). "kae tempest on Twitter" (Tweet). Retrieved 7 August 2020 – via Twitter.
^Hogan, Michael (14 September 2014). "Kate Tempest: a winning wielder of words". The Guardian. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^Donadio, Rachel (6 March 2015). "Kate Tempest, a British Triple Threat, Crosses the Pond". New York Times. Retrieved 7 September 2022.
^ ab"'Mercury nominees 2014: Kate Tempest". Guardian Music Blog. London. 22 October 2014. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^Flood, Alison (11 September 2014). "'Next Generation' of 20 hotly-tipped poets announced by Poetry Book Society". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^"Kate Tempest – 'Let Them Eat Chaos'". mercuryprize.com. Mercury Prize. 2 August 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^"Costa shortlists" (PDF).
^Cain, Sian (22 November 2016). "Costa book award 2016 shortlists dominated by female writers". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^"British Female Solo Artist Nominees Announced". Brit Awards. Retrieved 6 February 2018.
^Beaumont-Thomas, Ben (6 August 2020). "Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary, changes name to Kae". The Guardian.
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