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Clement Marfo & The Frontline – Champion
Clement Marfo & The Frontline will release their debut single, ‘Champion’, on 11 October though KIDS (The Wombats/ Kyte / The Whip). They can also announce a host of UK live dates, having stormed sizable crowds with their irrepressible live show, supporting the likes of Plan B and Chiddy Bang.
‘Champion’ is a knock-out punch of a pop song, marrying influences ranging from Jay-Z to Daft Punk, by way of N.E.R.D and Dizzee Rascal. From the instantly-singalong chorus to Clement’s relentless rap, it’s a supremely assured debut single from a genuinely impressive new UK talent. And it sounds like the ‘Rocky’ theme tune that never was…
The charismatic Clement, born to Ghanaian parents and raised in Kingston, South London, has become something of a phenomenon in the underground British music scene. Backed by his six-piece band ‘The Frontline’, ‘Champion’ is just a taster of Marfo’s ability to fuse hip-hop, rock and pop in a cut-and-paste yet brilliantly idiosyncratic fashion. He has the tunes and the attitude to become the champion he sings of.