Photograph: Amy Sussman/Getty Images for CoachellaĪfter a four-year stint in Los Angeles, Streten returned to Australia at the start of the pandemic to be closer to his family. ‘I’ve never really been a performer but I had to do it’ … Streten performing at Coachella in April 2022. I just didn’t know what I’d missed out on until I did have this time.” I didn’t really get to live my 20s, and I never thought about it like that before. “But after being here for a year, I started to have friends and a community, and I realised, oh, that’s what that void was. “I felt like there was something missing in life,” the now 30-year-old tells Guardian Australia over lunch at a pub near his house, Percy curled at his feet. He was widely hailed as a preternatural talent who pioneered a lush, layered electronic sound that has been often imitated, but never bettered. His second album, Skin, won him a Grammy in 2017, going to No 1 on the Australian charts and No 8 in the US. He was just 21 when he swept the Aria Awards with his 2013 self-titled debut, arriving on the red carpet in a stiff suit that made him look more like a kid at his year 12 formal than a multi-platinum musician. Photograph: Natalie Grono/The Guardianīefore he bought this sprawling, secluded property in early 2020, Streten had been on the go for almost a decade straight. ‘I felt like there was something missing in life’ … Streten at home.
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