After making a name as a spoken-word poet, producer and rapper in New York, Alabama-born Ellison Renee Glenn moved to Berlin in 2012 to start with a clean slate, keen on leaving behind a past of which the 2010 album title PreTty Boy (read "pre-boy") prevails as a reminder. This year saw him on the stage as often as in the studio, with gigs at Ballhaus Naunynstraße, HAU, the Maxim Gorki and his recent staging of Mozart's Così fan tutte with Peaches at the Deutsche Oper. All those performances informed the visual album for Come As U R, which officially drops December 9.
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Michael Hoh
Texter und Übersetzer, Berlin
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