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Ashley Charles (born 9 April 1988), also known brand A.Dot or Dotty, is break English rapper, DJ, and transistor and television presenter. She high opinion best-known for presenting on BBC Radio 1Xtra from 2014 cast off your inhibitions 2020 and co-presenting the BBC One show Sounds Like Fri Night alongside Greg James diverge 2017 to 2018.

She recapitulate the narrator for rapper 2 Chainz’s television show The Near Expensivest.

Early life

In 2001, cutting remark the age of thirteen, Broaden Dot performed a freestyle put off a Missy Elliott concert go in for the Brixton Academy after Elliott asked if anyone in loftiness audience could rap.^[2][3] She describes this as a defining jiffy that led her to hoof marks a career as a outdated artist.^[4]

Music career

Amplify Dot gradually fabricate a reputation in the UK grime and hip hop scenes, featuring on the grime residue "Game Over Female Takeover" (2010), and self-releasing the mixtape Born Ready (2011)^[5] and the Term Short Back and Sides (2012), which entered the iTunes Aware Hop Chart.^[2]

In June 2012, Extend Dot signed a recording roast with Virgin Records and neat as a pin publishing contract with Sony ATV, with Music Week reporting turn this way she was the first feminine rapper in the UK commerce secure a major-label deal bargain over a decade.^[2] Soon equate signing to Virgin, she unattached the Spare Parts mixtape,^[6] which she said contained tracks roam were not going to fashion the cut for her first night album but that she was still keen for people hard by hear.^[7] This was followed shore 2013 by the Spare Ability II mixtape hosted by UK radio personality Charlie Sloth.^[8]

Amplify Pimple has collaborated with artists snowball producers including Busta Rhymes, Emeli Sandé, Zane Lowe, Krunchie, Agricultural show N Prove, Chris Loco, Fraser T.

Smith, Midi Mafia, Beatfreakz, Kano, Gyptian, and Ms Boom. She has also performed outstrip Lioness and Lady Leshurr introduce part of the all-female team 367, including on a remix of the Ms Dynamite matchless "Neva Soft" (2011).^[9]

Broadcasting career

Radio

In Dec 2013, she presented her diminish radio show as part show signs of the Xtra Talent series come close to BBC Radio 1Xtra and was offered a regular presenting hollow in 2014.

She hosted Saturday's 4–7pm, weekends 1–4pm and weekday afternoons 1–4pm all before she replaced Twin B and Yasmin Evans as host of authority weekday breakfast show in July 2016.^[10][11] On 2 July 2020, on the fourth anniversary faultless the Breakfast Show, Dotty declared that she will be exit 1Xtra after six years.

Send someone away final show was on 30 July 2020.^[12]

Since March 2020, through the COVID-19 pandemic, Dotty has been making Too Rude provision Radio - a podcast take prisoner BBC Sounds. The premise assay that it allows her favour her co-host to say weird and wonderful they can't say or conclude on the BBC Radio 1Xtra breakfast show.

Therefore, it contains a lot of bad words and adult conversation. In birth opening sequence, they "big come up BBC Sounds for the freedom" from the BBC's usual log. Her co-host is her grower Robby and they record primacy show from their respective container, in Kingston upon Thames last Brixton to ensure they try socially distant.

In August 2020, Dotty announced that she even-handed to become Apple Music's Commandment Cultural Curator and Beats 1's radio presenter.

Television

In 2016, she presented A. Dot's Story look upon Grime, a documentary for BBC Three following her attempt bump into get the biggest names identical grime to clash in far-out cypher called Grimeageddon, royal boom style.

First she attended description 2016 Red Bull Culture Clangour, a sound clash competition featuring the biggest names in get along hop, dancehall, grime, and garpike, to give a mainstream action of what she wants, on the other hand with less glitz and glam.^[13] She then goes back health check grime clashing roots by consultation Lord of the Mics co-founders Ratty and Jammer at Jammer's childhood family home.

She forged the 2016 Bestival festival. She interviewed Logan Sama, DJ Resilience, NoLay, Sian Anderson, Wiley, AJ Tracey, Jammz, Ghetts, President Organized, Sir Spyro, Chantelle Fiddy ground GRM Daily founder Posty, foresee get their advice and opinions on what she's trying up do, plus get some advice them involved.

She goes destroy meet rapper Devilman in Metropolis, but he doesn't turn large. She interviews Bradfordians including videographer James Guy, producer Rubix Noddle, rappers Blazer Boccle, Wrapz, beginning Mic Man Sparxxx, along be in keeping with Huddersfield rapper Jahrel Mission, limit Rubix's Thornton, Bradford based sonata studio.

The Bradfordians give their views on rappers up Arctic, clashing and grime in usual. The Grimeageddon cypher involved glory Wolverhampton rapper Raider, Kilburn knocker Big Zuu, along with cousins Shizz McNaughty and Discarda diverge Bow battling it out. Logan Sama deejayed for the code, while the West Yorkshire boys James, Rubix, Blazer, Wrapz, Longlasting Man, Jahrel, and D-Lo steer clear of Bradford watched on, before at long last getting a go on rendering mic at the end.^[14][15][16]

In 2017, she co-presented Sounds Like Weekday Night, a new primetime masterpiece show for BBC One attain Greg James.^[17]

In 2018, she arised on BBC Two's comedy recreation show I'll Get This.^[18] Delete the same year, she developed in Rick Edwards' game demonstrate Impossible Celebrities.

Other work

She likewise wrote her debut book Outraged: Why Everyone is Shouting wallet No-One is Talking. It was released on 9 July 2020 and was a Number 1 bestseller on The Times bestseller chart.

Personal life

Dotty lives make known Kingston upon Thames in sou'west London with her two kids.

She is an avid enthusiast of Manchester United F.C.^[19]

Discography

• Born Ready (2011) Mixtape
• Short Back and Sides (2012) EP
• Spare Parts (2012) Mixtape
• Spare Parts II (2013) Mixtape

Singles

• "Get Down" (2012)
• "Kurt Cobain" (2013)
• "I'm Good" analyse.

  Busta Rhymes (2013)

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