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John The Singer is a genre-defiant, Sydney-raised ex-New Yorker now London-based singer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. Born in Melbourne, raised in Sydney, John the Singer’s long-term relationship with music began when he was a teenager living in a creaking, possum-frequented loft — starting in the most forlorn and romantic of places. “Of course, I would write acoustic ballads about girls I liked or who didn’t like me,” he says. John The Singer then studied music and psychology at The University of Sydney, before heading out of his hometown nest for an overseas gambit in the US, diving headfirst into a tiny apartment in the East Village and a place at William H. Macy’s lauded acting school in NYC. Incessantly experimenting with his sound, New York inspired something fierce in his music. The driving beats hint at the exciting pace of the global city. And his haunting vocal melodies cry out from under the chokehold of the capitalist machine. “On one hand, you have one of the