Category: GUAP Profile
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![Kofi Stone’s [@kofistone] flowers have finally bloomed.](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/KOFI-STONE-FINAL-COVER-1080x850.jpeg)
There’s a calmness to Kofi Stone that makes you lean in.He speaks softly, almost like he’s thinking aloud, but the meaning lands with weight. Maybe it’s the Ghanaian poetry in his blood. Maybe it’s the years spent learning himself before the world ever caught up. Or maybe it’s the name the one his grandfather gave…
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If you haven’t heard of 22 year old musical polymath tendai – then you haven’t fully opened your ears to the sonics the UK has to offer. Just 5 timeless singles and one spotless EP deep, The genre redefining artist has rightfully been growing from strength to strength – featuring on Stormzy’s latest album, nominated…
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![#GUAP32 FROM THE ENDS TO GLOBAL RECOGNITION: NIPPA’S EVOLUTION [@NIPPA.AD]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/RYO_7132-1140x850.jpg)
Nippa, embraces his journey and community, as he gears up to unleash his expanded sound… It’s the first signs of summer in London, the sun has started to show its face and with one arm draped over a wrought iron fence, Nippa fawns over a brown Avirex jacket that’s been handed to him, behind, his…
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![In Conversation with bionic ‘Sleepova’ writer Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini [@astrominx]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/l-r-Amber-Grappy-Aliyah-Odoffin-Bukky-Bakray-and-Shayde-Sinclair-in_Sleepova_production_shots-at-Bush-Theatre.-Photo-Helen-Murray.webp)
In conversation with Sleepova bionic writer Matilda Feyiṣayọ Ibini
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![A Man of Many Hats: Meet cultural activist Adekunle ‘Kay’ Rufai [@universoulartist]](https://guap.co/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/DSCF1243-2-1140x850.png)
Adekunle ‘Kay’ Rufai – a man of many hats and most popularly known as the founding director of the S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys project is colorfully blending photography, mental well-being, and black boy activism internationally. Kay has successfully fused his photography, poetry, filmmaker, and mental health researcher skills to develop the multilayered S.M.I.L.E-ing Boys programme, which shows a…
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London has long been seen as the forward-thinking capital of fashion. Birthing designers like the late, great Vivienne Westwood & Alexander McQueen, and some that emerged in more recent years such as Bianca Saunders and Grace Wales Bonner; it’s fair to say that this city has always had a good vision of what the future…
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Picture yourself after a wild night out, exhausted, a cup of tea in hand, wrapped in a warm blanket, the light of the moon seeping through your curtains intertwining with the gradually changing colours of your Amazon LED light bulb. Now picture this playing in the background. Reading raised, South London based trio Kid Apollo…
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Returning to the international stage, Luedji Luna, one of North Eastern Brazil’s most exciting contemporary artists. We sat down with her after her sold out Jazz Café debut to talk motherhood, nature and how Brazilian politics influences her work. Words by: Justine Farrant
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AG Club are wistfully reminiscing over their recent brush with destiny as opening acts for Pusha T on his It’s Almost Dry tour. Jody Fontaine recalls one specific moment when he met Pharrell backstage. A true icon, he reminds us, as he proudly peels back his sleeve to unveil a N.E.R.D brain tattoo (placed amongst…
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For #GUAP30 ‘A Great Day In Ldn’ we profile 23 UK artists pushing the bounds of the UK’s sonic landscape. The people contributing to and leading the wave of everything new, innovative and authentic within music and beyond.