Kae Tempest
Kae Tempest | |
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Tempest at La Route du rock in 2024 | |
| Born | 1985 (age 40–41) Westminster, London, England |
| Occupations | Poet, playwright, rapper, recording artist |
| Notable work | Hopelessly Devoted, Wasted, Brand New Ancients, Everybody Down, Hold Your Own, The Bricks That Built The Houses, Let Them Eat Chaos |
| Musical career | |
| Genres | Spoken word, hip-hop |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Labels | American Recordings, Fiction, Big Dada, Ninja Tune, Lex, Gearbox Records |
| Website | www |
Kae Tempest (formerly Kate Tempest) is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.
At the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon. In 2013, he won the Ted Hughes Award for his work Brand New Ancients. He was named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a once-a-decade accolade. Tempest's albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. An accompanying poetry book for the latter album (also titled Let Them Eat Chaos) was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category. His debut novel The Bricks That Built the Houses was a Sunday Times best-seller and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Breakthrough Author. He was nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. Tempest came out as non-binary in 2020, then as a trans man in 2025.