“You hear him before you see him,” a member of the Gabriels entourage tells me, as a resonant cackle erupts from the rear of a black van. That’ll be Jacob Lusk, the soul trio’s singer, sharp dressing focal point and one man charisma machine.
Even before releasing today’s debut album, he’s been a Brit Award nominee, a man anointed for greatness by Diana Ross, Harry Styles, and Elton John, and a (sort-of) Glastonbury headliner alongside the latter. As a packed, ecstatic, Friday night tent at the Love Supreme jazz festival in East Sussex attests, he’s undenaiably this year’s new star.
