Pa Salieu named winner of BBC Sound of 2021 poll

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Pa Salieu has been announced as the winner of the BBC Sound Of 2021 poll. The Coventry rapper says that he was spurred on to make music after surviving being shot in the head in 2019.Speaking to the BBC, he says he hopes to give a voice to friends and others who have died, changing public and political perceptions of victims of street violence.

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BBC Music's Sound of 2021 winner has been revealed as rapper Pa Salieu.

Pa Salieu has been named as the winner of BBC Music’s Sound of 2021 poll.The Coventry rapper, who received acclaim last year for his debut mixtape ‘Send Them To Coventry’, is the latest winner of the corporation’s annual new music poll.

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