A Greenwich rapper is set for the big time after securing a  spot on Dannii Minogue’s new single and signing with the mega showbiz agency as One Direction.

Twenty-two-year-old Reece Robertson already has a large underground following but is looking for his career to hit overdrive after signing with CAA, the same agency as 50 Cent, Green Day and Kanye West.

He is also on Aussie pop princess and former X Factor Dannii Minogue’s chart-climbing new single, Summer of Love.

It all started when he got a new manager, called The Method.

Reece said: “They were sending my music around. Dannii Minogue heard one of my records and it all came about over Twitter.

“She DM’d me and said she liked my music, she said she had a song that she wanted a rapper on and said that she thought I was perfect for it.

“It definitely was a boost.”

Within two days, Reece was in a studio recording his verse.

He said: “It wasn’t 100 per cent I was going to be on it. She wanted to see how I sounded first. I did my part and they loved it. They ended up using it.

“She didn’t have to give me the opportunity. She could get bigger rappers to push the tune forward but obviously she liked the way I rap. She is probably trying to help me as well.”

Since recording the single, the pop princess has helped Reece by encouraging her Twitter fans to follow him for announcements about its release and performed the single at Sydney’s enormous Mardi Gras celebrations.

With that under his belt, Reece has his sights set on his own projects.

He said: “Right now, I have recorded a couple of singles and I’m getting them mixed and mastered.

“Next month I’m in with some great producers and I’m going to try and figure out a sound that is different.

“I have got a lot of records that I have recorded over years and years but I’m throwing it away because I want to do something better than that.

“It is going to be my first ever single whatever it is because everything I have done up til now has been underground to get my name out there.”

That is not to say his music has been unsuccessful. In the last few years he has supported Jay Z and Will I Am at Wireless festivals and headlined a show in Scotland with Professor Green.

He said: “I have been around all the signed artists but I’ve always been independent. It’s been kind of crazy.”

Having grown up on the Charles Ferrier Estate before moving to Woolwich, Reece started rapping in his bedroom at the age of 13, inspired by British artists such as Kano, Dizzee Rascal and The Streets’ Mike Skinner.

He said: “It was an outlet. I was going through a lot as normal teenagers to young men do, and it was an outlet. I’m not like your rapper that talks about violence and crime. It’s more the truth and what people go through in life.”

When he left school, he decided to take the music seriously.

His song Heaven gained more than a million views on Youtube and was the longest-ever charting record on urban music TV station, Channel AKA, beating the likes of Devlin, N-Dubz and Lethal B.

He said: “From a person that records my records in a bedroom, it was crazy. It made me realise I can actually do this if I put my mind to it.

“From that record I wanted to progress, get better and be a bit more creative. Then I went and got management.

“I have had ups and downs with different management but the management I’m with now I am very happy with.”

Follow Reece’s progress on Twitter @ReeceRobertson