Dev Hynes: ‘Puff Daddy somehow got my number… it was pretty strange’

The east London musician talks about his album Negro Swan– and why he prefers playing football to being on stageDevonté Hynes – Dev for short – was born in 1985 and raised in Ilford, east London. In the mid-2000s he was part of the clamorous nu-rave trio Test Icicles, and later, under the alias Lightspeed Champion, he took a detour into country-tinged indie-pop. Moving to New York, he began producing for artists such as Sky Ferreira, Carly Rae Jepsen and Solange. Si