In recent years, Louis Dunford has enjoyed a meteoric turnout since his song The Angel (North London Forever) was adopted as an unofficial club Anthem van Arsenal.
The song was originally released in February 2022 and Details Dunford's experience with growing up in North Londs.
Texts contain references to areas near the Emirates Stadium, including the former Highbury van Gunners house, as well as the nearby places of Kings Cross and Caledonian Road.
After playing Arsenal before the end of the 2021-22 season of Arsenal, the choir of the song, with the chorus 'North London Forever', is played for every home game at the Emirates.
Dunford, 33, has seen his profile increase dramatically, because the side of Mikel Arteta used the single on MatchDay – to sell locations in the United Kingdom.
But the singer born in Camden had a tough start of life because he witnessed a heartbreaking incident at the age of only 16.
After completing his GCSEs at the Holloway School, now known as Beacon High, Dunford went out to celebrate in Shillibeers Brasserie Bar (now called the N7 depot) with some of his friends on June 29, 2008.
After a row that broke out between Dunford's friend Alfie and a man named Osman Ozdemir about the sentence 'What do you look at?'.
With Dunford that night, Ben Kinsella, who was stabbed 11 times after he had become divorced from his friends and was completely driven by three men, who wrongly believed that he was involved in an earlier argument in which they were 'not respected'.
One of Ben's murderers, Jade Braithwaite, was heard and said, “Tell your boy if he wants problems, I have my tool with me and it will open you.”
Michael Alleyne, 18, Braithwaite, 20, and Juress Kika, 19, were imprisoned for life, with a minimal penalty of 19 years, after he was found guilty of the murder of Ben.
Kinsella was the 17th teenager who was killed in London that year.
Just a few months before his death, Kinsella wrote a letter to the then Prime Minister Gordon Brown, in which he called on the government to do more to tackle knife crime.
Dunford – who kept Kinsella in his arms while he was dying – then raised £ 10,000 for the Ben Kinsella Trust Charity by selling t -shirts during his concerts.
The charity that campaigns against mescrime has also installed permanent exhibitions in Kings Cross, East London and Nottingham.
Dunford also wrote a song about the attack, entitled The Ballad of Benjamin, which was released last year.
Louis describes the scenes with the lyrics: 'And I was there when you fell on your knees/ and I held you in my arms and we collapsed on the street.
“And I said,” I'm not worried, son, I'm going to take you home “/ and I was there, I swear that I did my best.
“To stop bleeding the holes in your chest/and I shouted:” I am, please stay awake, I have to get you home “''.
He has also paid tribute to him in countless messages on social media and writes on Ben's murder's 14th birthday: 'I think of him every day. I'll always do it. '
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