Name: Radikall

Passion: Writing and Making music and performing my art to the world

Dreams and Ambition: To bring life and fresh sound to the dancehall/reggae scenes. To uplift the dancehall scene with lyrical punchlines and sweet melodies. I'm dancehall take over, the next generation of dancehall.

Sempre em frente porque a vida é feita de derrotas e vitorias

Bruno Da Silva, better known by his stage name, TooClassical, is an English rapper. He released his first mixtape in 2009 with his group NMG (No More Games); which sold a successful 2000 physical copies.
In 2011, TooClassical released a collaboration mixtape with fellow Wolverhampton based rapper, Cornstar , titled Face Off; which was again, well received by the local community.
More recently, in 2013, TooClassical released his first solo mixtape; Who's About This. This body of work gained 1000 downloads throughout all major mixtape websites in UK and contains some of TC’s best lyricism and music.
In October 2013, he released his major singles, titled ‘Head Down’, featuring Cornstar, preceded with Who's About This track and many other freestyle videos on YouTube. 
Many of these videos, especially Head Down had a hit of 18 thousand views.

Early life

Bruno Da Silva was born in Luanda, Angola, on 20 May 1991. Bruno came to the UK at the age of 12 in 2003 and lived for a year in London before moving to Newport, South Wales At the age of 18 he moved to Wolverhampton and attended Wolverhampton Paget Road College, before earning his Diploma in Art and Design as well as many other certificates and qualifications in excellence.
At the age of 18, Bruno conceived his stage name through his obsession for olden music, such as Blues, Jazz, Rock ‘n’ Roll and many other influential historical genres. Some of TC’s greatest influences are the likes of Ray Charles, Buddy Holly, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Little Walters, Muddy Walters and many others .
TooClassical began to developed his own sound by combining Hip Hop , RnB, Rock, Jazz and Blues which has allowed him to prosper as an artist, create his own lane and uniqueness, as well as enabling him the ability to create great music.

Early career

TooClassical started out his career in 2007 when he joined a group of four young rappers named, Flow Yungerz. He also founded a partnership with Urban Circle Records (a community centre record label) which allowed him and Flow Yungerz to record a huge amount of songs during the year he spent with them.
In 2008 he left both the group and the label and began to take the initial step towards his independent career; which consisted of freestyling and performing throughout many festivals and music sets across the country.
After moving to Wolverhampton, he began to take his music much more seriously; producing more focus and effort, missing College classes to partake in freestyle battles. Through these freestyle battles, TC was spotted by an individual who knew someone who was looking for members to join the Hip Hop group; NMG (No More Games). After taking up the offer, TC and the group went on to release a mixtape named Pen to Paper; which had a great impact in the streets of Wolverhampton and achieved great sales.
Throughout that year NMG became the word of the town and spread through many areas in West Midlands, which lead to the recognition of several independent record labels and contracts being put into place.
However, in 2011 TooClassical departed from the group on a positive note due to the ambition to fully focus on his solo career.
Throughout this time TC began to perform around the region at events, while planning his first solo mixtape entitled Who’s About This. However before taking major actions towards his this body of work, he wanted to develop his sound, so he teamed up with a local artist Cornstar; which lead to a joint project and mixtape. Face Off the mixtape, was released in 2012 gaining great rates and downloads throughout the internet.
In 2013 TooClassical attend Derby University to study Architectural Venue and through the year began to record, and finally release his first solo mixtape which helped widen his audience and build his diverse catalogue of music.

Vision for the future

While working on Who’s About This TooClassical was already on the process of his second mixtape "Vintage". This mixtape took approximately a year to complete because of TC’s obsession of wanting to perfect and define his sound.
With this project he has dug deep within himself to show his original sound and ability to compose songs; he did not want to release just another repetitive mixtape but believes Vintage could lead to the beginning of something special.

The concept of the Vintage is the true definition of his stage name, and his love for olden music. The songs, sounds and samples used are reminiscent of Blues and Jazz, which produces a ‘Classical’ feel.
The ambition to have a hit number one in the charts and touching people’s hearts with his music is strong within TooClassical, and with past success, determination for the future, and an exciting mixtape to release soon; he is not far from achieving this.

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