Jarki Monno

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KILI PRESENT: Jarki Monno
On the surface, Jarki Monno was living out his dreams. A young kid from Hemel Hempstead making serious waves in music, his 2024 EP ‘Mother Told Me ‘These Things Happen’’ was a breakout moment - his live shows were packed, and the rising force was picked to play BBC Radio 1’s Big Weekend. Underneath it all, however, he was struggling; using the studio as a space to explore his feelings, Jarki Monno has emerged emboldened and renewed with an incredible new EP and refined sense of purpose.
 
“It was a year to remember, that’s for sure!” he says, looking back on his rise. Picked out as BBC Radio 1 Introducing’s Track of The Week, playing shows across the UK – and even the continent – he even made his debut TV performance on BBC One News to an audience of millions. As his career accelerated, however, Jarki became unable to process powerful feelings of loss – losing two father figures in quick succession, he found himself sinking. “I started to feel like some kind of a bad omen; that trouble just followed me around,” he says. “I threw a rug over that area of my life. It was difficult to revisit.”
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