British singer Allman Brown on Spotify gold and his ‘privileged’ Hong Kong childhood:

https://www.scmp.com/print/magazines...lls-privileged

I had a cushy life until I left univer­sity at 22. All my friends were going to work at Deloitte, Jardines or the Foreign Office, but I had no idea what I wanted to do. Singing was the one skill I was good at...
On my first day at his studio, Lisa Marie Presley and the Backstreet Boys were there, and Jason Mraz was making ginger tea in the kitchen. I thought all my dreams had come true, but it wasn’t that easy. Nothing happened for two years and I felt deflated – I was working in a pub.