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Kelvin Swaby, lead vocalist for English soul-rock outfit The Heavy, is one of eleven siblings in his family. Eleven. On that note, if you ever ask Swaby what kind of music he grew up listening to, he may describe his experience in the following way.
"It was like a Japanese nightclub," he recently told KUT host Jay Trachtenberg in Studio 1A. "There was different music in every room." So in one room you'd hear The Specialists, and maybe you'd hear Hendrix blaring out of another. Soul, R&B, pop, rock -- an entire spectrum of great stuff to choose from. And it's all been a major influence upon Swaby.