Bristol/London, United Kingdom
Born in Bristol in 1994, to a family of four children, Collins Nemi was engrossed in a childhood devoted to music and football, and played up to a national level. Remembering sitting in the car with his mother on countless occasions, and listening to GWR (Bristol Radio), Nemi enjoyed the subtleties of POP throughout the day, but secretly craved the post-7pm Electronic music influx.
It was at the age of 15, and surrounded by his two cousins, that Nemi began to make his own beats, picking up the keyboard and guitar, and teaching himself the intricacies of production. Initially finding his musical feet in Grime, Nemi explains: “Me and my cousins uploaded our first track to BBC Bristol Introducing and it ended up being played by Mista Jam on 1XTRA. That really gave me the bug.” From that point onwards Nemi fixed his sites on a solo-career as Conducta. He continued to thrive at school, and was an academic high achiever, securing himself a place to study at SOAS. It was then, at 18 years of