Daley is a soul singer and songwriter from Sale, Manchester, UK. He studied at Sale High School. He is signed to A&M Records UK.

In October 2009, Daley was invited by BBC Introducing

BBC Introducing

BBC Introducing is the brand for new music programmes across the BBC radio stations, showcasing unsigned, self signed and other emerging musical talent primarily from the UK. Launched in 2007 the Introducing brand brings programming from across the BBC under a unified brand with each show retaining...

 to record a live session at the BBC's Maida Vale studios as part of Electric Proms 2009. He was chosen after uploading his track, "Rainy Day", to BBC Introducing.

Daley's tracks have been broadcast by BBC Radio DJs Ras Kwame

Ras Kwame

Ras Kwame is a British radio DJ and presenter. He started in the music industry as a club DJ playing hip hop, R&B and reggae in the early 1990s. He then moved on to promoting for Kiss100's groundbreaking Starlight Club night and the Mean Fiddler’s Subterranea Club, bringing over talent from the US...

, MistaJam

MistaJam

MistaJam is an award-winning DJ and Radio presenter for BBC Radio 1, joining in 2008 and BBC Radio 1Xtra, joining in 2005.His show on BBC Radio 1, taglined the "Saturday Night Soundclash", is broadcast on Saturday nights between 11pm - 1am and is simulcast on BBC Radio 1Xtra. The show is part of...

, Ronnie Herel

Ronnie Herel

Ronnie Herel is a disc jockey and radio presenter on BBC radio 1Xtra, the BBC's digital station for new black music, presenting the flagship 1xtra R&B show on Monday nights from 10pm til 1am....

, Jo Wiley and by Sam Walker at BBC Introducing in Manchester.

His vocals are featured on the single "Doncamatic" by Gorillaz

Gorillaz

Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters...

, released in the UK on 22 November 2010 and added to a re-release of the album Plastic Beach

Plastic Beach

Plastic Beach is the third studio album by British virtual band and alternative hip hop supergroup Gorillaz, released 3 March 2010 on Parlophone and Virgin Records. Conceived from an unfinished Gorillaz project called Carousel, the album was recorded during June 2008 to November 2009 and produced...

. In an interview with NME

NME

The New Musical Express is a popular music publication in the United Kingdom, published weekly since March 1952. It started as a music newspaper, and gradually moved toward a magazine format during the 1980s, changing from newsprint in 1998. It was the first British paper to include a singles...

, Daley states that he and Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn is an English singer-songwriter and record producer who has been involved in many high profile projects, coming to prominence as the frontman and primary songwriter of Britpop band Blur...

 co-wrote the single. Daley performed the track in BBC Radio 1's Live Lounge on 20 November.

On 6 December 2010, the BBC

BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...

 announced that Daley had been nominated for the BBC's Sound of 2011

Sound of... (BBC poll)

Sound of... is an annual poll of music critics and industry figures to find the most promising new music talent. It was first conducted by the BBC News website in 2003. A top 10 list is published each January.-Winners:-Sound of 2009:...

 poll.

Daley released his ten track "Those Who Wait" mixtape/EP in August 2011, as a free download from http://daley.tv and released the first song from the mixtape on YouTube. The song, "Game Over" is produced by ELEMENT

ELEMENT (production team)

Element is a Norwegian record production and songwriting team, consisting of Hitesh Ceon and Kim Ofstad. Some of the latest productions of the team include two songs for U.K...

 and written by Daley, Hitesh Ceon & Kim Ofstad.

Singles

Year	Single	Peak chart positions		Album
		UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	NL Mega Single Top 100 The Single Top 100 is a Dutch chart, based on official physical single sales and legal downloads and composed by MegaCharts. It is one of the three official charts, the other two being the Dutch Top 40 and the Mega Top 50. The difference is that these charts also include airplay data.The list is...
2010	"Doncamatic" (with Gorillaz Gorillaz Gorillaz is an English musical project created in 1998 by Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett. This project consists of Gorillaz music itself and an extensive fictional universe depicting a "virtual band" of cartoon characters... )	37	40	Doncamatic single
As featured artist

Guest appearances

Year	Title	Album	Artist
2011	"Long Way Home"	Black and White Black and White (Wretch 32 album) Black and White is the second studio album by British hip-hop artist Wretch 32. The album was released in the United Kingdom on 21 August 2011 through Ministry of Sound - debuting at number 4 on the album chart.-Background and release:...	Wretch 32 Wretch 32 Jermaine Scott , better known by his stage name Wretch 32 , is a Black British rapper and former Grime MC from Tottenham, London where he grew up the son of a local reggae DJ in the Tiverton Estate. He was a member of the grime collective "Combination Chain Gang", before forming The Movement with...

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