Blue Saint

Blue Saint

Artist

Daniel Sebuyange, known professionally as Blue Saint, is a Congolese and British rapper, singer-songwriter, producer, spoken word poet, actor and designer. Over his music career he has developed an eclectic musical style that draws on a range of influences and genres, often combining and blending elements of hip-hop, RnB and electronic music. Blue Saint’s music lyrically incorporates a range of political, social, philosophical and cultural references with themes usually centred around social injustices. His project’s tend to be conceptual in nature, having released a series of concept EPs tilted Enter Mynd.

As a child, who had a great fascination for the creative arts, Blue Saint began to aspire to become an inventor, eventually equipping himself with a product design engineering degree, before discovering rap; a musical form he instantly developed a love for. Enamoured of storytelling he began to view rap as a medium conducive to telling a story, and by the ages seven and eight, was already writing lyrics.

A part of Writing on the Wall’s Liverpool Young Writers at the ages twelve to sixteen, winner of The Poetry Society’s SLAMbassadors Award at fourteen, a MOBO nominee at the age of fifteen, winner of Merseyrail Soundstation 2014 at the age of twenty, a prize celebrating breaking new talent in the Liverpool music scene, and having won more awards, he has gone on to recieve many accolades and achievements.

Throughout his years he has performed at events alongside UK chart topping and/or recognised artists such as Ed Sheeran, Plan B, Wretch 32, Akala, Sway, Lowkey, Benjamin Zephaniah and Jerry Dammers of The Specials, as well as internationally acclaimed artists such as the legendary hip hop veteran Pharoahe Monch and the well regarded spoken word artist Saul Williams.

His semi-autobiographical concept EP series titled Enter Mynd has received great media attention and support from media outlets such as GetIntoThis, the Bido Lito! Magazine, the Bido Lito! Magazine, BBC Introducing and Capital Liverpool (previously Juice FM) as well as being featured in various newspapers and articles from the local (Liverpool Echo) to the national (The Independent and The Skinny).

“Daniel, reduced the audience to a quiver.” – The Independent

“Daniel ‘Blue Saint’ Sebuyange [has] … transcended the boundary between musical artist and ‘man of letters’.” – The Skinny

“[Blue Saint] the fiercely prodigious 20-year-old … in short, he’s one to watch.” – Liverpool Echo