Valiant is dancehall’s latest international superstar.
Finding success in Jamaica as well as abroad with singles like “Mad Out”, “Dunce Cheque” and “Narcissistic”, Valiant’s well-earned rise to fame can be most recently marked by his performance at London’s Wireless Festival. With close to 50,000 people in attendance at Wireless, Valiant’s appeal to both dancehall listeners and casual fans of popular black music was made clear when fans sang out the lyrics to his hits in their droves.
Valiant joined us for a chat in a bright studio in Central London in socks, slippers and with a fruit smoothie in hand. In his music videos and onstage, Valiant is the life of the party but in person, Valiant is humble, polite, a little shy and very homesick.
“Right now, I want to go home. Yeah mon, mi easy fi get homesick. If I go to other countries, even for two days, I want to go home. Mi love road. I’m not a person that socialises a lot, not because you see me on social media. I don’t know a lot of persons like that. I like to drive go here and go there. I’m a man weh drive from Kingston, go straight back to Mobay or even Negril. That’s my vibe. I’m home sick because I can’t get to.
“Last night, a friend said we should go and get some jerk chicken. We forgot we’re in London and you can’t go up the road and get jerk chicken. It reaches 11pm and you can’t really go and get anything”
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