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Kae Tempest (* 22. December 1985 in Brockley , South London as Kate Esther Calvert ) is a British nationality and in the fields of rap , poetry and literature worked (theater and novels).
Life
The youngest of five children, Kae Tempest was born and raised in south east London. After dropping out of school in 2001, Tempest had his first rapper performance in London that same year. In 2006 she started taking part in poetry slams . Tempest toured Europe, Australia and America with his own band Sound of Rum . Tempest appeared in the opening act for Billy Bragg, among others . Appearances at Glastonbury Festival and other events followed.
Tempest's first poetry collection Everything Speaks in its Own Way was published in 2012, the first play Wasted 2013. With the spoken word performance Brand New Ancients , Tempest won the Ted Hughes Award in 2013 as the first non-male poet under 40 , the poetry award of the British Poetry Society.
In 2014 the album Everybody Down was released , produced by Dan Carey and nominated for the Mercury Prize 2014. Tempest's first novel The Bricks That Built The Houses was published in 2016.
In August 2020, Tempest announced on Twitter that it would henceforth bear the name Kae and instead of the previous pronouns she / her (female: "she / her") use the gender-neutral they (not translatable in German). This announcement is understood in media reports as an expression of a non-binary gender identity .
Works
Poetry
- 2012: Everything Speaks in its Own Way
- 2014: Hold Your Own , ISBN 978-1-4472-4121-8
- German: Hold Your Own. Poems , translated from the English by Johanna Wange. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-518-12706-3
- 2016: Let Them Eat Chaos , ISBN 978-1-5098-3000-8
- 2018: Running Upon The Wires , ISBN 978-1-5098-3002-2
- German: Running Upon The Wires / Vibrations - Poems , from the English by Johanna Davids. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020, ISBN 978-3-518-12760-5 .
Spoken Word Performance
- 2012: Brand New Ancients - Ted Hughes Award 2013 (released on CD in 2014)
- 2017: German / English Brand New Ancients / Brand new classic poetry. Edition Suhrkamp, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-518-12733-9 .
Plays
- 2013: Wasted
- 2014: Glasshouse
- 2014: Hopelessly Devoted
novel
- 2016: The Bricks That Built The Houses , Bloomsbury Circus, London
- dt .: What you can rely on , from the English by Karl and Stella Umlaut. Rowohlt, Reinbek 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-26989-9
Albums
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- 2011: Balance (with "Sound of Rum")
- 2014: Everybody Down - nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize
- 2016: Let Them Eat Chaos
- 2019: The Book of Traps and Lessons
Collaborations
- 2019: Trust In The Lifeforce Of The Deep Mystery (with The Comet Is Coming )
- 2019: Where the Heart Is (with Elysian String Quartet )
single
- 2014: Our Town
- 2015: Bad place for a good time
- 2015: Europe Is Lost
- 2017: Tunnel Vision
- 2018: Bubble Muzzle
- 2019: Firesmoke
Web links
- Kae website of Tempest (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Ben Beaumont-Thomas: Kate Tempest announces they are non-binary, changes name to Kae. In: The Guardian . August 6, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020.
- ↑ Rabea Weihser: A tornado of words . Sound carrier, Zeit Online, May 21, 2014
- ^ Dorian Lynskey: Kate Tempest: 'We live in crazy times. You can't tell a story without it feeling political ' . The Guardian, October 23, 2014 (English)
- ↑ Kate Tempest at Big Data Records (English)
- ^ Claire Armitstead: Kate Tempest wins Ted Hughes poetry prize for 'spoken story' . The Guardian, March 27, 2012 (English)
- ↑ Perceived truth . , sueddeutsche.de from May 20, 2016, accessed on October 8, 2018
- ↑ The Bricks That Built The Houses at Bloomsbury Publishing (English)
- ↑ Kae Tempest: @kaetempest. In: Twitter . August 6, 2020, accessed on August 6, 2020 (English); Quote: “I'm changing my name! And I'm changing my pronouns. From Kate to Kae. From she / her to they / them. [...]. "
- ↑ Chart sources: Germany Switzerland UK
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| SURNAME | Tempest, Kae |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Calvert, Kate Esther (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British rapper, poet, playwright and novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 22, 1985 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Brockley , South London |