This day, Stormzy performed three songs for BBC Radio 2’s month-prolonged Piano Room, accompanied by the BBC Concert Orchestra on the BBC’s Maida Vale studios.
Stormzy performed his hit ‘Crown’, unique note ‘Give It To The Water’, and his classic veil became once ‘Ranking Right here’ by Oleta Adams.
On Glastonbury:
It became once the ideal moment of my existence. […] That’s a terribly ‘Thank God’ moment from me, I don’t take that calmly. That’s esteem an proper ‘I even maintain lived my dream’ [moment] and I’m peaceable alive and I’ve peaceable bought my profession sooner than me and I thank God for that.
On the artist he’d work with if he had a time machine:
Whitney Houston. Easy! To be beautiful, I bellow that – I’ve bought this thing moreover where I will love artists and regularly I know its no longer your dwelling to get song with them. In a dream world, it’s esteem ‘That artist, and that artist’ on the other hand it doesn’t continually work esteem that. So maybe I don’t work with Whitney. Possibly we’d get in the studio and get the worst song ever. Possibly I factual love her. However the foundation of being on a song with her and making an shapely document is a dream reach moral.
On his writing rituals:
I write on my dogs stroll in the morning. […]And in the studio, no longer too prolonged ago I factual kick everybody out the room. I dispute everybody ‘get out the room’ and I factual fiddle around with suggestions. I don’t plan no longer maintain any eccentric methods to write. I factual take it in my plug. I’m additionally no longer a thorough creator. I’m no longer esteem ‘I need to realize this song this day!’. I have confidence you get there with maturity as an artist. You believe that ‘I will attain this song this day’ because I’m a proficient creator, I’d esteem to consider. So I don’t sit there and wrack my mind. I factual take my time, utilize some meals, relax and all of it comes. And I pray and I let God attain it moreover.
Peer Stormzy’s Radio 2 Piano Room efficiency on BBC iPlayer.