Otis & Shugg has been played on NTS in shows including The Low Bias Show, featured first on 13 May 2019. Songs played include Earl That's Yo' Life.

Their names may not be familiar unless you were there at the start of the neo soul movement in the mid-90s, but you will be familiar with their Grammy Award wining producer Raphael Saadiq (recently recording himself again as an artist under the name Ray Ray).

Otis and Shugg are half brothers Otis Cooper and ‘Shugg’ David from Oakland, California. They grew up in the same neighbourhood as Saadiq who got to hear one of their demo tapes. At first Shugg did some…