Bryn Christopher

Bryn Christopher (born 8 November 1985, Birmingham, England) is a British singer-songwriter. Bryn cites his influences as greats such as Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, Nina Simone and Stevie Wonder. Bryn was brought up in Great Barr, Birmingham, one of four children born to a black father and a white mother. His parents separated before Bryn's seventh birthday, and he was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother. Painfully skinny, with different interests from the other kids, Bryn was teased mercilessly and began to dread going to school, until he joined a youth theatre company at the age of 12. Here he discovered a sense of confidence and the kind of pop music - Alicia Keys, Michael Jackson - that he could relate to. He joined a soul...