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Glastonbury Emerging Talent Competition 2025
The judges – who included Michael and Emily Eavis, Glastonbury stage bookers and music business professionals – gave the two runners-up places to Ghana-born, Gloucester-raised neo-soul / hip hop act Nat Oaks and Welsh language singer-songwriter Mali Hâf. Both acts receive a £2,500 Talent Development prize from the PRS Foundation. While revealing the winners, BBC 6 Music’s Huw Stephens announced that both runners-up would also get a slot at this year’s Glastonbury Festival.
The night’s opener, Mali Hâf, is adorned with Celtic paint markings and gives a hypnotic performance: Welsh-language folk-dance hybrid fusing ritualism and performance art, concluding with previous single Boudicca where dancers masked as foxes swarm the stage – a vibrant Björk-influenced first for the scene.’’ - Buzz Magazine on Huw Stephens’ BBC Radio 6 Launch Show
“Clad in body paint, the Welsh-language alt pop (think a bass-heavy, ethereal take on neo-soul) star channels ancient Celtic mysticism in a short but engrossing set.’’ - Live Report, Clash Magazine
