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Watch Dave give a heartfelt speech in honour of the late Jamal Edwards

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Dave paused to pay tribute to his late friend and mentor Jamal Edwards, who died earlier this month at the age of 31.Though no specific cause of death has been formally confirmed, friends of Edwards have claimed (via Metro) that the influential British author, broadcaster, DJ and founder of SB.TV passed away from a heart attack.

In a statement, his mother said Edwards had succumbed to a “sudden illness”.Dave was one of the many artists Edwards championed before his mainstream breakout, as he told fans at the O2: “Jamal Edwards is the reason I’m standing in front of you guys here today.

There’s so many different emotions that all of us feel – all of us that were so connected to him in so many different ways.“We all have a different experience to him, but we all have so many things in common with the experience.

And he’s one person in the world that just wanted to help, that just wanted to see every single person that he touched shine.”Such a beautiful moment during @Santandave1’s phenomenal @TheO2 show tonight, a moving tribute to Jamal Edwards and the impact he had on so many careers pic.twitter.com/TNWQD7ELO5— George Garner (@george_garner8) February 28, 2022The rapper went on to reflect on his first meeting with Edwards, which happened during the former’s tenure at the Richmond upon Thames College in Twickenham. “He gave me an opportunity when no-one would,” Dave said, noting that when he was unable to afford the production costs for his earliest music videos, Edwards bankrolled them “out of the love and kindness of his heart”.He continued: “Every single thing that I have today – we have today – we owe to Jamal Edwards… I want to say I’m so, so, so grateful for you, brother.

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