Lifestyle The Evening Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Tems is on the way home from the gym.
It’s the only time we can fit in a phone call for her ES Magazine cover interview. In two days she will be flying to New York for her debut performance on Jimmy Fallon’s The Tonight Show . Then it’s back to London where she is preparing to launch her debut album, Born in the Wild, which will be followed by a world tour starting with a headline show at the Eventim Apollo and spanning all the way from America to Australia.
‘Turn right here,’ she tells the cab driver, before apologising for interrupting our conversation. She pauses: ‘Wait, what was the question again?’ This is just what Tems’ life looks like these days. Go, go, go.
It has been ever since our first conversation back in 2020. At the time she was being interviewed for an up-and-coming artist feature off the back of her debut EP, For Broken Ears. We spent the majority of our time talking about her being a self-professed introvert who secretly joined the choir while in school with the hopes of one day being a singer.
Fast-forward four years and she has not just arrived — she’s at her peak. “No real artist should be threatened by AI” Tems ‘That time was crazy. There was so much stimulation, so many things happening all while I was still an independent artist,’ she says, adding that she had to find her.
