According to Clean Bandit member, Grace Chatto has confirmed that taking drugs during her teenage years left her with slower speech.
In a TikTok post, the now 39-years-old, Grammy winning group’s cello player shared several facts about herself including how her drug use has effected her mental capacity, and her not being able to get car insurance because of a driving suspension.
On a picture of herself looking into a mirror, the British-born musician typed “I speak so slowly because I took too many drugs when I was a teenager.” “I can’t get car insurance because I had a driving ban,” admitting that she “ghosted all my friends”, “can’t get out of bed”, and is “socially awkward”.
Using her group’s latest song ‘Believe’ featuring South African artist Lloyiso as the soundtrack to her post, a second mirror shot of Grace included the caption “But I believe in us. Won a Grammy, gratitude for all that I have, I am strong, I’m nice, I am honest,” typed the string player.
The Clean Bandit trio enjoyed working with the Idols South Africa star Lloyiso so much that, when asked if he could lead the band full-time, founding member Jack Patterson recently told ContactMusic.com “Maybe Lloyiso. Never before but maybe now.”
Hoping bandmates Jack and Luke Patterson will record a full length with Lloyiso, Grace said:
“Jack is going to the Burning Man Festival, and we are trying to convince Lloyiso to go with him so they can write an album with him.” “This is the most organic collaboration we have ever done I think, because we were in South Africa in Cape Town, and we met Lloyiso quite randomly after a performance. His friends, these two producers called ‘The Imports’ asked us to stay out here. We were meant to fly back to London to write some songs, and Jack and Luke did go back to London, so I went on my own and we all stayed in this big house, and we made writing rooms in every bedroom. I always like to be in bed, so it was perfect to be in bed. We had keyboards all over the bed, and guitars and everything, and we started a beat, and Lloyiso just came out with an incredible melody that became the chorus, and I have never heard such a beautiful voice. It was so moving, and I said, “sing it again”, and voice-noted it to send to Jack who had just landed in Heathrow. He went crazy and immediately wrote some chords under that melody.”
Featuring the likes of Anne-Marie, Jess Glynne and Zara Larsson to front their tunes in the past, Clean Bandit have never had a constant singer.
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Author: Al Denté
Photo: Justin Higuchi