Born in Texas, raised in Ilford and now living in New York, he can turn pop stars into hipster hits with his special brand of beat-making (yes, that’s a thing) and songwriting for the original Sugababes, Britney Spears and, most recently, Jessie Ware. He also has a winning smile and a very natty dress sense — we love a grown man in dungarees. He’s tough, too, standing his ground in a Twitter spat with Beyoncé’s ballsy sis Solange last year over how much credit he should have got for her album (thankfully, he didn’t share a lift with her). All we wish is that he’d come back to England for good — or maybe distance is a good thing: Dev suffers from synesthesia, which means he sees sounds as colours… and Crush’s swooning sighs are a very uncool shade of red right now.
