Abubakar Baker Shariff-Farr, or Bakar, is a singer-songwriter from London, England who doesn’t own a cellphone and models for Louis Vuitton and Prada in his spare time.

After logging onto SoundCloud in 2015 and uploading some heartbreak-inspired tunes, the alternative star began climbing the charts. He made his debut with his mixtape Badkid in 2018 and followed it up with the EP Will You Be My Yellow? in 2019.

Bakar describes his music as “schizophrenic” and told Complex “If people saw me and presumed the type of music I make, 90% of them would say rap or hip-hop. I could be on every playlist on Spotify and feel at home there”.

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Bakar – Will You Be My Yellow?

 

Bakar – Badkid

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