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Higher (Clean Bandit song)

2021 single by Clean Bandit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 22, 2025
Entity authorityQ105476333 ↗
Source-derived summary

"Higher" is a song by British electronic music group Clean Bandit, featuring vocals from Puerto Rican-American rapper, singer, and songwriter Iann Dior. It was released as a single on 29 January 2021 by Atlantic and Warner Music. The song was written by Dan Smith, Jack Patterson and Mark Ralph.

Music video

A music video to accompany the release of "Higher" was first released onto YouTube on 29 January 2021. A man sings while he dances in a tropical island. The video was filmed at Lime Cay, off the coast of Jamaica.

Personnel

Credits adapted from Tidal.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2021—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2021. For this dossier, Higher, Clean and Bandit is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Higher (Clean Bandit song)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.