And the Hello everyone and welcome to episode 169 of so the Jerker on songwriting.

Joining us today is a category defying,

either novella winning British singer, songwriter and record producer.

In the decades since his emergence he's become one of the most in-demand and respected names in the music business

and worked with the legs of Beyonce, M&M, Ed Sheer, Caneer West, Ciea, Tiny Tempa and Mike Poznet to name a few.

As this episode reaches you, he's recently been nominated for two Emmys for his atmospheric genre

hopping composing work on the HBO series, Euphoria.

It's our great pleasure to welcome the brilliant

labyrinth to the show. We were really tough to get this one in the bag.

Oh totally. We followed Labyrinth's work with great interest for a long time even

prior to starting the podcast in fact. He's a super talented guy isn't he?

He is yeah he's sort of a ball of positive creative energy basically isn't he?

Yeah yeah and he's got that totally infectious enthusiasm for what he does as well, which you'll hear in a couple of minutes.

Our guest was born Timothy Lee Mackenzie in 1989 and raised in Hackney, London.

He comes from a family of musicians. He's one of eight siblings and grew up listening to a variety of styles.

His parents were the devotees of American Gospel music, while his sisters were fans of R&B and his brothers lean towards jazz and hip-hop.

The young Timothy began rapping himself in his teens and rechristened himself

Labyrinth.

When he was around 16, his brother Mack began showing him the ropes of studio production,

while his mom, clearly recognizing her son's potential,

found him a manager who very generously gave him the keys to his recording studio,

thus providing him with a space to develop and experiment unimpeded around the clock.

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