Cedd is a singer-songwriter and performer from Tāmaki Makaurau, Aotearoa. His work is shaped by a lifelong fascination with the sweeping melodies of the great Romantic composers, the grand tragedy of opera, the artifice of Old Hollywood, and the singular storytelling talents of his songwriting champions – from Joni Mitchell, Nadia Reid and Lady Gaga to Paul Simon, Anohni and Perfume Genius.
He filters these influences through his own lived experience, telling stories that are too ugly to be told, and imbuing them with the beauty and truth they deserve. His musical works exist less as songs than as vignettes: intimate fragments of character, memory and life, rendered with a keen eye for the strange, the tender and the tragic.