Zero 7 - Destiny ft. Sia, Sophie Barker

What this video is

Released on 6 August 2001 as the second single from Zero 7's Mercury Prize-nominated debut album Simple Things, 'Destiny' arrived at a pivotal moment for UK electronic music — a post-trip-hop, pre-blog-era juncture when downtempo acts were achieving mainstream chart penetration. The song debuted at number 30 on the UK Singles Chart and became a defining document of early-2000s chillout culture, later appearing on…

Why it matters

A canonical text of the UK downtempo/chillout genre, 'Destiny' exemplifies the early-2000s synthesis of ambient electronica, soul-inflected vocals, and cinematic production values. Its dual vocal architecture — Sia on verses and choruses, Barker duetting on choruses — became a model for layered…

The director

Howard Douglas Greenhalgh (born 19 February 1963, Halifax, West Yorkshire) is a British director of music videos and advertising. He studied at the Royal College of Art and rose to prominence directing Snap!'s 'Rhythm is a Dancer' in the early 1990s, then…