A biography for Santan Davehasn’t been written yet.
“We're all just humans at the end of the day.”
“I like making music when no one's really there, so it's just you and yourself: you're more free.”
“It's what I do my entire life when I'm not doing music. If I'm in a hotel room in Sweden, or on a plane to Vancouver, I'm watching football. I'll try to talk about other stuff, too, but football is a lifestyle.”
“Grime is its own sound. There's a lot more to it. It's like a sound, culture, style - the way that they dress and speak.”
“I think we internalise a great deal. Music can draw that stuff out of even the hardest person.”
“Psychodrama' is a form of therapy and it is just expressing how you feel in whatever way is the most creative to you. Some people act it out, some people sing it out, people find their own different ways.”
“As a human, I'd say I'm pretty intermediate.”
“That's why the Kanye Wests and the Drakes are just in a different league, because they have the ability to be vulnerable and open.”
“I've given her bragging rights. That's something my mum's definitely big on, like any African parent. Like any parent.”
“I'm always looking forward and trying to improve.”
“The moment I started learning to play the piano it changed my whole dynamic with music and with school. Suddenly I had a reason to be there, or at least at my music lessons; it just took hold of me.”
“I don't think that one moment in people's life should define them. Within reason: I emphasise that.”
“Rap, for me, I go at any tempo and any sound of beat and incorporate melody as well.”
“Grime must be its own genre.”
“The piano is an instrument I've always loved and so I taught myself. As a rapper, who wants to produce more, being able to play by ear helps a lot because I know where I want an instrument to turn or how I want it to sound without having to do too much work.”
“I wish I could make myself more riveting but I'm quite standard, as the name suggests.”
“I've always like 'Dragonball Z' and 'Naruto,' that kind of drawing. My older brother draws so he was always drawing 'Dragonball Z' characters and so I got into it from there.”
“For a black person who's Senegalese, growing up in France, or a New York Jamaican, that's a completely different relationship with being black and how you might be accepted in that culture or that world. Everyone's experience is different. Especially black women and black men.”
“Just be thankful for what you have in the moment, but most importantly, work hard. The things that you work hard on have a lot of impact.”
“I just can't belong to a genre, because I don't know what I would want it to be.”