{
  "id": 9394288,
  "title": "Ezra Collective Stay Hopeful",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/23/ezra-collective-stay-hopeful",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-09-23T18:32:07.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Stereogum",
    "slug": "stereogum",
    "url": "https://stereogum.com/2512331/ezra-collective-stay-hopeful/columns/ugly-beauty/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "I was stunned when Ezra Collective drummer Femi Koleoso told me he’s just 31 years old. (He’ll be 32 in October.) I’ve been listening to him for a decade, since the group’s 2016 debut EP, Chapter 7 , and two albums he played on the following year, Nubya Garcia’s Nubya’s 5ive and Camilla George’s Isang . The bassist on those latter two releases was Daniel Casimir, but in Ezra Collective, Koleoso…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}