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Omar: Fighting His Corner

David Burke, Classic Pop, August 2017

HE WAS A pioneer of the British soul movement of the 1990s, alongside Brand New Heavies, Young Disciples and Jamiroquai, but Omar claims the genre's black artists remain marginalised nearly three decades on.

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