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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Jonathan Kanengoni

Fumez the Engineer: ‘People were speaking on my name, and they didn’t even know who I was.’

Our image of a music star tends to be one dimensional. With the spotlight often focusing on singers or rappers, it is often forgotten that it can take a team of people behind the scenes to make the magic happen – many of whom we rarely get to see.

Jahrell Bryan, also known as Fumez the Engineer, is an audio engineer who has created his own spotlight, with his signature taglines dropped onto the end of his productions, essentially shouting himself out in some of the biggest UK hip-hop tracks of recent years, including his remix of Ed Sheeran’s Bad Habits with Tion Wayne and Central Cee, which helped propel the track to number one on the UK Singles Chart.

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