RISING STAR
Feeling it
After the release of his debut EP, Plastic, Surrey-born singer Dan Aura, 21, discusses growing up in the internet age, love triangles and his path to self-acceptance
As told to Thomas Stichbury
Imagine you’re filling out an online dating app profile. How would you describe yourself?
Fabulous, adventurous and a little mad.
Sum up your sound for us.
80s-influenced pop wedged somewhere in between Troye Sivan and Rina Sawayama.
Which song – by another artist – would take pride of place on the soundtrack of your life?
‘I’m Still Standing’ by the incomparable Elton John. It’s the perfect ‘bad bitch’ song for me – it symbolises everything I’ve been through to get where I am today as an openly queer artist.