Paradise, Tempest's modern adaptation of Sophocles' Greek Classic, Philoctetes, premiered at the National Theatre from 4 August - 11 September 2021. Tempest's song "People's Faces" was used for the Facebook commercial "We're Never Lost If We Can Find Each Other", created by the agency Droga5, and released on 9 April 2020. They were nominated for Best British Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. The album was also nominated for the Mercury Prize, this time in 2017. 28 on the UK Albums Chart, and was also released in book format (Picador). They released the album Let Them Eat Chaos on 7 October 2016. In September 2016, it was announced that Tempest would curate the 2017 Brighton Festival. It won the Books Are My Bag Best Breakthrough Author Award. In April 2016, their debut novel The Bricks That Built The Houses was published by Bloomsbury and was a Sunday Times Bestseller. Tempest was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2015. The collection was a commercial and critical success and its release coincided with Tempest being named a Next Generation Poet. In October 2014, their first poetry collection for Picador, Hold Your Own, was published. Since the release of Everybody Down, Tempest has increased touring as a musician, playing at festivals and headlining shows with their live band which consists of Kwake Bass on drums, Dan Carey on synths and Clare Uchima on keyboards.
In 2014, they released the album Everybody Down ( Big Dada, Ninja Tune), which was produced by Dan Carey and was nominated for the 2014 Mercury Prize. In September 2013, their play Hopelessly Devoted was produced by Paines Plough and premiered at Birmingham Rep Theatre. Some of Tempest's influences include Christopher Logue (their "favourite poet"), Samuel Beckett, James Joyce, W B Yeats, William Blake, W H Auden and Wu-Tang Clan. The piece also won Tempest the Herald Angel and The Ted Hughes Prize. At 26, they launched the theatrical spoken word piece Brand New Ancients at the Battersea Arts Centre (2012), to great critical acclaim.
In 2013, Tempest released their first poetry book Everything Speaks in its Own Way, a limited edition run on their own imprint, Zingaro. Tempest performs hip hop, namely their signature piece Let Them Eat Chaos, at the 2017 Treefort Music Fest in Boise, Idaho Career Tempest came out as non-binary in 2020, using pronouns they/them. They were nominated as Best Female Solo Performer at the 2018 Brit Awards. Their debut novel The Bricks That Built the Houses was a Sunday Times best-seller and won the 2017 Books Are My Bag Readers Award for Breakthrough Author. The latter's accompanying poetry book (also titled Let Them Eat Chaos) was nominated for the Costa Book of the Year in the Poetry Category. Tempest's albums Everybody Down and Let Them Eat Chaos have been nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. They were named a Next Generation Poet by the Poetry Book Society, a once-a-decade accolade. In 2013, they won the Ted Hughes Award for their work Brand New Ancients. Kae Tempest (formerly Kate Tempest) is an English spoken word performer, poet, recording artist, novelist and playwright.Īt the age of 16, Tempest was accepted into the BRIT School for Performing Arts and Technology in Croydon.
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