“I met Slum Village and a lot of different people on the hip hop side of things. It was around this time that he started making the important contacts that would lead to his record deal in 2000. I think the music helped to guide me it was crazy, but music was a way of expressing my emotions.”īy the age of 14, Dwele had started rapping, and continued to do so throughout high school and college. “It was a really frustrating and confusing time for me. “The loss of my father really inspired my creative side,” Dwele recalls. ![]() As he was only ten at the time, he didn’t know what direction his life was going in, and turned to music as a form of therapy. However, tragedy struck when his father was fatally shot while trying to help Dwele’s uncle in a dispute outside the family home. Dwele’s love of musical instruments began at the age of six, when his father introduced him to the piano. His name is Dwele, and he’s the latest in a long line of artists to emerge from the Detroit area, ready to take on the world with his raw and uncompromising talent.īorn and bred in Motor City, Andwele ‘Dwele’ Gardner, 25, (whose first name loosely translated in Swahili means “God has brought me”), grew up with his mother, father and younger brother in West Detroit. ![]() Forget D’Angelo, Bilal and Musiq, there’s a new soul sensation in town.
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