Michael Ebenezer Kwadjo Omari Owuo Jr. known professionally as Stormzy, is a British rapper, singer and songwriter. In 2014, he gained attention on the UK underground music scene through his Wicked Skengman series of freestyles over classic grime beats. He won Best Grime Act at the 2014 and 2015 MOBO’s and was named as an artist to look out for in the BBC’s Sound of 2015 list. His debut album, Gang, Signs and Prayer (2017), was the first grime album to reach number one on the UK Album Chart and won British Album of the Year at the 2018 Brit Awards.
This video was played before the 2019 Easter service at St. C’s in Wrose.
In 2019, Stormzy achieved his first UK number-one single with “Vossi Bop” and his headline appearance at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival was widely praised; he wore a Union Flag stab vest designed by Banksy, in light of the rise in knife crime in London. His second album, ‘Heavy is the Head’ was released in December 2019. It has been nominated for the 2020 Mercury Prize. The title comes from a misquote of Shakespeare. The original quotation ‘uneasy is the head that wears a crown‘ is from Henry IV Part 2 is often now phrased as ‘heavy is the head the wears the crown‘. The phrase has become an English idiom meaning that those charged with major responsibility carry a heavy burden that makes it difficult for them to relax. This is one of the singles taken from the Album.
Stormzy is a Christian, on the BBC’s Christmas Day lineup in 2019 he read a passage from the Gospel of Luke.
