Kai Bosch

About

Whether it be from the isolation of his rural Cornish upbringing, the pure hedonism of Berlin’s throbbing nightlife or in the thick of London’s romantic grime, Kai Bosch has always made music for himself.

Hailing from the sleepy fishing village of Port Isaac in North Cornwall, Kai’s story is an all too familiar queer tale of feeling bigger than your surroundings. “I came out when I was 14, I was the only gay kid at my school and in a very closed-minded part of the country - I didn’t quite know who I was or how I fitted into that world.” - to bide his time, Kai found comfort in the diaristic preachings of Lorde’s Pure Heroine and the hushed introverted cool of The xx. “Music was the only thing that helped me cope, I found artists like Lorde and The xx and was so inspired seeing these teenagers just coming out and saying how they felt about things and the world celebrating them for it! It really sparked something in me and I realised I had so much that I needed to say too.”

At 17 Kai decided to take music seriously, dropping out of college without any A-levels he blagged his way onto a Popular Music degree at Goldsmiths University and uprooted himself to London via a brief stint in Berlin. Newly in London he fell into the catalogues of James Blake, FKA Twigs and Radiohead and let their avant-pop sounds steer his own ever-evolving pursuit of style. “I ended up with a really bizarre music taste! My playlists were jumping between these really acclaimed artists straight into a niche Girls Aloud B-side.” Bosch clearly uses this to his advantage, his music often smushing together commercial pop hooks with a more left-field production.

Authenticity has always remained at the heart of what Kai puts out - whether it be wrestling with his own trauma or coming to terms with the end of a relationship, feeling comes first. “I want to make songs that I can listen back to and live in that exact moment - whether it be reeling from an argument with my ex-boyfriend or being drunk on a balcony in Berlin, the “sound” that I was chasing for so long was actually just me and my voice, everything I put out is an extension of me and that’s what ties all of my songs together - genre or not!”