Today we welcome 2 x Eurovision winner and force of nature Loreen. In this intimate & heartwarming episode we explore how Loreen uses pain as an advantage, taking pain & making purpose, making sadness sanctuary for growth. From humble beginnings with a talent she resisted for sharing, in the end - and through it all, living & breathing her art, Loreen is somehow triggered to triumph. This is what happens when we Press Record

0:00 Opening Montage 1:04 Introducing Loreen

5:22 Growing Up & Family

7:27 Swedish Idol 11:33 The Duty of the Artist

14:00 Fear as an Illusion

17:51 Euphoria & Refusing to Compromise

20:50 The Journey - Euphoria to Tattoo 23:51 Finding Peace

27:25 Love, Identity & Sexuality

29:23 Rapid Fire & Closing

Guest: Loreen Host: Phil Griffin Press Record is all a bot the art of conversation. A co-production between Pete Townshend's Extended Play & Phi Griffin, this series of intimate conversations set in the safe space of our Soho Studio, explores the journey that brings our guest to us today . Every step has led them here. The moments where a left or right turn felt right.\ The moments when standing still was the only option. Every choice, every changes, every struggle & every triumphs paints a picture where me meet each other and celebrate how it happened.

Today I am blessed to share connection with Jp Cooper a singer songwriter who always gives us everything in his heart, but only on the understanding it may hurt...just a little.

We meet as Jp's Album "A few Folk" offers the audience the most truthful and heart felt collection of songs to date. Songs that get his dopamine firing on all emotional cylinders. The result is a gift to our ears.

In this episode I learn that JP, is the friend my soul never knew it needed and I am grateful to have met him. Without doubt, this is an artist for the ages, a unique human whose ability to understand the "beauty of tragedy" allows him to touch us with compassion from the moment his un-parralleled voice soars into our hearts.

Enjoy x

Today we talk. What it takes to turn resilience and chaos into purpose and potential.

Today we are joined by music industry, Titan, darkest Beese, OBE, the man who brought us. Amy Winehouse, Jesse J Taio Cruz, Florence & the machine Mumfords and Sons, and so many more.

We explore a past where volatility was a state of being for Darcus where race wars, class wars, and culture wars shaped and tuned him into both an artist and businessman where failure was simply not an option.

From early struggles, finding his blackness to understanding his own mental landscape.

From the pressure cookers of West London to the skyscrapers of New York for Darcus, being ready to run, ready to move, ready for anything has not only been a passport to success, but also due to his un-diagnosed A-D-H-D - ticket to humility.

This is what Happens When We Press Record