CONCERT REIJJE SNOW

Rejjie Snow seems to be a rap artist, and technically he is. But he doesn't see it that way, and anyway, the simplicity of the label (or any label, really) masks what makes him different, which is pretty much everything. "I thought I'd be blacklisted from hiphop because I'm Irish," he says, but that's just the most obvious thing that sets him apart.

And then there's his voice, deep and otherworldly, capable of following a beat with metronomic precision, caressing a raw piano or screaming...