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Who is Taylor Swift’s Wembley opening act? Griff, who was inspired to write music by the Shake It Off singer, is now opening for her idol at the Eras tour

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Who is Taylor Swift's Wembley opening act? Griff, who was inspired to write music by the Shake It Off singer, is now opening for her idol at the Eras tour

 

She first fell in love with music after getting an iPod shuffle with Taylor’s Swift’s Fearless album on it as a gift. And now, up and coming musician Griff, 23, is one of the openers for the superstar’s Eras Tour in London.

 

Who is Taylor Swift's Wembley opening act? Griff, who was inspired to write music by the Shake It Off singer, is now opening for her idol at the Eras tour

The young singer, whose real name is Sarah Griffiths, has found immense success from a young age despite being so shy about pursuing music that she kept quiet about her ambitions – despite meeting with producers as she was doing her A level revision. Her first single – Mirror Talk – was released just two weeks after she completed her final school exams and in just a few short years, she was supporting hit artists like Coldplay, Dua Lipa and Ed Sheeran. She told The Face that most of her peers didn’t even realize she sang until her debut track was played on Radio 1.

Griff grew up in Kings Langley, Hertfordshire, born to a ‘Chinese mum and a Jamaican dad’ – and told an NME interview that she, her two older brothers and upwards of 20 foster siblings over the years made for a ‘very busy household’. Her mother Kim came to the UK after the Vietnam War, and her father Mark – an IT worker – is the son of Jamaican immigrants. She has also described her upbringing as deeply religious – and admits it’s still a big part of her identity.

In 2021, the star told GQ how being part of the Hillsong Church – which puts emphasis on music -served as practice for her future career. ‘[Music] is a form of worship and it’s a form of connecting with God,’ she told the outlet. ‘In that sense, I’ve always experienced music on that emotional and spiritual level.’ Despite knowing she wanted to be a musician from a young age, she kept her ambitions hush from most people, quietly teaching herself to produce and record music on her brother’s laptop.

‘You feel like you owe it to [them] and to yourself to get a good education,’ she told the outlet of her parents. ‘Creative jobs are not particularly at the forefront.’ In 2019, she told i-D that she still found it ‘a bit cringe’ to talk about her artistic ambitions. ‘No one likes that person at school who talks about how they want to sing,’ she explained. ‘Also, things take time, and there’s no guarantee I’ll be successful, so it’s a bit embarrassing to talk about it until it is. To be fair, I still don’t really talk about it.’

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