Formerly a producer for Ed Sheeran and Stormzy, Fred Again's songs are rooted in human connection.
Gibson was born and raised in Balham, south London, and showed an aptitude for music early on, learning piano and tuned percussion instruments like the marimba and xylophone before moving on to drums and guitar - ensuring he could build entire songs from scratch by himself.
Pretty soon, Gibson was working at Eno's studio, making tea, running errands and geeking out over vintage synthesizers, while working on his own music in the downtime. In 2014, Eno invited him to co-produce two albums he was making with Underworld's Karl Hyde. Gibson acknowledges that he spurns the typical verse-chorus structures of pop, but he can't exactly explain why.
Gibson produced the bulk of the tracks on Sheeran's No. 6 Collaborations Project and, by the end of 2019, had racked up credits on 30% of the year's number one singles.In the studio with rapper Headie One, for their 2020 collaboration, Gang
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