Nyrobi Beckett-Messam will be spending her 21st birthday in the studio. “I just love music so much that doing anything else wouldn’t feel like my birthday,” the ALT BLK ERA vocalist tells Kerrang! excitedly from her home in Nottingham. For Nyrobi, who has loved music from a young age, she feels at her most comfortable being creative. As a child, she wrote poetry, penning her first song around the age of eight. She would often celebrate her birthday by sitting her mum and her younger sister Chaya – the other half of ALT BLK ERA – down and singing an album’s worth of songs for them. It’s part of the reason her mother enrolled her and Chaya in a songwriting course a few years ago. The other side to it, however, was that Nyrobi was diagnosed with chronic fa...