The choirboys at King's College Chapel in Cambridge have a more nerve-wracking Christmas than most. One of them will be picked to sing the solo for Once in Royal David's City in the Nine Lessons ...

"My experiences are a starting point to speak about larger issues," says the Delhi-raised, Berlin-based artist whose recently released second solo album ... "I really enjoy singing about topics ...

I began to see SOLO not as lines of poetry, but as bars of music . . . a new way the poems could look on the page.