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Airy heartfelt ballads and off-centre wonky funk typified the early output of Nao, one of the exciting alternative R&B artists to surface during the mid-2010s. Raised in East London, she began playing piano in early childhood and, as a young teenager, started taking singing seriously. Nao attended Guildhall School of Music and Drama to study vocal jazz.