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'Pre-Millennium Tension': How Tricky Challenged Expectations To Find Artistic Freedom

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The odds were stacked against Tricky. Born Adrian Thaws in Bristol in January 1968, he grew up in Knowle West, one of city’s most deprived areas. His father, Jamaican sound system operator Roy Thaws, left home before he was born and at four years old, he lost his mother, Maxine Quaye, to suicide. He was raised by his grandmother and extended family against a backdrop of violence. In 2010, he told The Guardian, “I had seen my uncle stab my other …
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uDiscover Music broke the news in on Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
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