Wu-Lu
British musician
Miles Romans-Hopcraft, known professionally as Wu-Lu, is a musician from Brixton, South London. He has self-released one album and two EPs, and released his first album with Warp Records, Loggerhead, in 2022. His music covers a wide variety of genres, including several types of hip-hop and rock, though he is most commonly associated with punk rock.
Early life
Miles Romans-Hopcraft was born on 8 January 1990 in Brixton, South London, and raised there. His mother, Hopal Romans, is a lecturer and contemporary dancer, and an alum of the Alvin Ailey American Dance School. His father, Robin Hopcraft, is a trumpeter and co-founder of the London reggae fusion band Soothsayers. Romans-Hopcraft has a twin brother, Ben, who plays in the bands Childhood, Warmduscher, and Insecure Men. Both twins guested with their father's band as preteens, with Miles playing bass which is his primary instrument.
Romans-Hopcraft listened to a large variety of music genres growing up, finding music from his parents, skateboard and graffiti culture, and video game soundtracks. These genres included hip-hop, grunge, alternative metal, pop-punk, and underground electronic genres such as drum and bass, UK garage, broken beat, grime, and dubstep.
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