Why I love… musician Sampha
Nobody’s voice swoops more elegantly and mournfullyThere’s a scene in the 1988 movie The Princess Bride in which Westley (Cary Elwes) makes a noise described as “the sound of ultimate suffering”. For a family comedy, it’s pretty intense; it’s a raw sound – an animal in anguish – and not played for laughs.Of course a howl is not the only way to telegraph pain and despair. Similarly eloquent is music, and I have not heard anything in recent years qui
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