FRESH: ‘All Or Nothing’ – Alfie Sharp

It really is “All Or Nothing” for Alfie Sharp
Soul/Pop

Aged 21, Nottingham born singer Alfie Sharp has a life of experience already, enough to fill a soul of blistering songs, full of storytelling from a queer boy coming-of-age.

Born, raised and living in the city itself, a city Alfie describes as “big in character, small in size”, serves as the lucid backdrop to Alfie’s music.

With this in mind, Alfie has released his new single, “All Or Nothing”, the first real test of his own strength off the back of his 2019 debut, “Nostalgia”. “All Or Nothing” is a song that demands our attention. “Once I kissed somebody else’s boyfriend, just to taste the guiltiness on my lips,” opens Alfie, writing lyrics and weaving stories of excess and British kitchen sink dramas, but with an ageless vocal tone that is closer to stars of golden-age Hollywood.

Growing up in Clifton, a council estate in Nottingham, Alfie understands the connotations of ‘crime and poverty’ which come with his home, but the singer-songwriter attributes community, close family and love in his upbringing, something you can hear in his mature, velvet vocals, for an artist so young. Alfie took refuge in the likes of Nina Simone, Lily Allen, Tina Charles and The Beatles, with the ritz and rubble of classic voices and glamour often providing a safe haven for the singer.

Alfie remembers big family parties sitting around the piano, belting out tunes together. It is that raw, emotional connection felt at home with the people he loves that forms his songwriting, but also the looking outside of Clifton and himself, at a chaotic world full of corruption, desire and infiniteness. As he himself says “There was something so liberating about writing these lyrics and feeling no shame about the trials, tribulations and mistakes of growing up and especially growing up gay, navigating my way through that and not always being right”.

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