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Former Haverstock School pupil Saint
has combined with N-Dubz after being crowned UK battling champion |
Saint, we forgive your sins
DOES it look like butter wouldn’t melt? Probably not, and it definitely does. Saint is one of the foulest-mouthed artists I’ve ever come across – and I didn’t even have a bar of soap at the ready.
Not in person, though. Saint, known only to his mother and some long-suffering teachers as Daniel Gomez, is lovely. Charm personified. But put him on stage with a mic in his hand and he starts saying very bad things about your mum.
As of a year and a half ago, after the 23-year-old had been crowned UK champion and was at the top of the tree, he retired from the world of battle.
Instead of spending his time working on rhymes to cuss people with – he who says the rudest, funniest things, wins – Saint decided to concentrate on music.
And as with all good stories, it all started at school with his mates. A kid from Jamestown Road, he went to Haverstock School in Chalk Farm, where he made friends with none other than Dappy and Faze – better known as two-thirds of N-Dubz.
He jokes now that he was lucky to have friends – they were his target practice in the early days – but he knows he’s even luckier to have friends like N-Dubz, and he is just about to release a single with them.
“During all that time I went to N-Dubz’s studio and watched them start from nothing,” he says of the early days.
“I chose to cuss people and make money, not make music. I’d get a reward back every month, but I was going around in circles. You can’t get any better than the UK champion. Through them I was learning about the music industry.”
But intriguingly, their single, Where Do We Go?, almost didn’t happen. Despite recording it more than a year ago, it sat on Saint’s shelf while he dealt with some personal problems; he had his eureka moment while sitting in his living room one day and their
No1 single, appropriately titled Number 1, came on the telly.
“I’ve got a single with them – what am I doing?” he says he asked himself.
“That really kicked me up the arse.”
And it’s been all go ever since. He’s now the subject of a bidding war, he’s sponsored by Adidas, and he’s set to star in a movie with the cream of UK urban talent, including, of course, N-Dubz.
You really did see him here first.
CHARLOTTE CHAMBERS
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