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}} Benjamin Sainte-Clementine (English pronunciation: ; born 7 December 1988) is a Mercury Prize winning, British-French poet, pianist, composer, musician and a recording artist from London, England.〔 Dubbed as the future sound of London, he grew up in North London before moving to France for a period of time. During his spell whilst singing in Paris he broke free from the traditional song structure, inventing his own dramatic and innovative musical territory and consequently became a cult figure in the music and art scene. He then moved back to London and subsequently made his TV debut on the British television programme ''Later With Jools Holland'' which was praised by the BBC.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url = http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/3xJPQ6QzNqYpsFh0XQpTx3/10-most-explosive-performances-in-recent-later-with-jools-holland-history?ns_mchannel=social&ns_campaign=bbc_homepage&ns_source=twitter&ns_linkname=corporate )〕 Most critics have honored him citing and describing him as a man of unusual intelligence, great pianistic style and deep musicality with charisma on stage but nonetheless, found it difficult to place his music in one specific genre, mostly stating that its rather beyond category. However, his vocal range, ability and diction has mostly been compared to that of Nina Simone, Antony Hegarty and his passionate vocal delivery to Edith Piaf.〔 Britain's London Evening Standard named him one of London's most influential people of 2015 in their The Power 1000. Clementine's music is famously incisive and poetic, mixing revolt with love, hope, rebellion and melancholy, sophisticated lyricism with slang and shouts, and rhyming verse with prose monologues. He is noticeably seen playing on stage entirely in black or dark grey long trench-like woollen coat with no shirt underneath, in bare feet. ==Early life== Clementine was born in Crystal Palace, London,〔 but grew up in Edmonton, in the north of the city. He is the last of 5 children. He grew up with his grandmother and after she died, moved in with his parents. Having suffered bullying at school, Clementine was mischievous as a child but his rebellion was rarely conventional. He found himself particularly drawn to the literature of the Bible as well as poetry, especially William Blake, TS Eliot and Carol Ann Duffy. He would bunk off school but spend all day at the library, picking these books at random off the shelves. His older brother Joseph was fond of music philosophy, science and English literature and would point out different types of books and dictionaries for him to read. Clementine sought out rarely used and archaic words, attempting to incorporate them into his vocabulary.〔 Joseph bought a piano when Benjamin was 11 and when Joseph had finished his daily practice, Benjamin would play with its keys. Eventually his brother's acquired taste for the piano had gone and he quickly moved on to another instrument. Meanwhile, this gave Clementine more time to continue practising and playing. In a few months he started imitating the work of fin-de-siècle composer Erik Satie, learned from hours of listening to Classic FM after "becoming bored" with pop music, and continued to practice and play discreetly for the next 5 years till his parents divorce.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Benjamin Clementine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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