Jacob Banks

Banks was born in Nigeria, but lived in the UK all his life - first in Birmingham and then in London. He studied to be a city planner, but fate decreed otherwise and he became a musician.

The world learned about Banks as a performer seven years ago thanks to the debut mini-album The Monologue and the track Worthy, which was hosted by the famous DJ Zane Lowe. Someone in the comments to Worthy on YouTube then wrote: "This guy could have recorded an awesome song for a James Bond movie."