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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Shaad D'Souza

‘I had no plan. Just total scorched earth’: how Kiran Leonard survived teen success to make songs of full-body joy

Kiran Leonard sits with legs crossed on a grey sofa
‘I couldn’t really find another manager – never have since, actually’ … Kiran Leonard. Photograph: Ben Beauvallet

Kiran Leonard presses the tips of his fingers together and looks at me solemnly across the table. “I don’t know if I’m doing a very good job,” he says, “But I’m trying really, really hard not to swear.”

A decade ago, he explains, he was interviewed by the Guardian, got too drunk, and “swore all the way through the interview”. When the piece came out, his grandfather was thrilled. “But he couldn’t show any of his friends because I just sounded really aggressive,” he tells me sheepishly.

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