Kwabs

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Kwabs at the Utopia Island Festival 2015
Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Love + War
  DE 26th 09/18/2015 (2 weeks)
  AT 44 09/25/2015 (1 week)
  CH 12 09/20/2015 (4 weeks)
  UK 26th 09/24/2015 (2 weeks)
Singles
walk
  DE 1 
platinum
platinum
11/21/2014 (35 weeks)
  AT 3 
gold
gold
11/21/2014 (27 weeks)
  CH 4th 
gold
gold
11/16/2014 (33 weeks)
  UK 71 October 18, 2014 (1 week)
Willing & Able (with Disclosure )
  UK 70 08/27/2015 (1 week)

Kwabs (* 24 April 1990 in London as Kwabena Sarkodee Adjepong ) is a British soul - singer .

Life

Kwabs grew up with foster parents in the London borough of Bermondsey , his birth parents come from Ghana . A teacher discovered his musical talent and placed him in the National Youth Jazz Orchestra , where he was lead singer for three years. After graduating from high school, he studied jazz at the Royal Academy of Music . In 2011 he took part in the BBC reality TV show Goldie's Band - By Royal Appointment by drum and bass musician Goldie , which culminated in a performance by Kwab at Buckingham Palace .

Kwab's cover version of Corinne Bailey Rae's song Like a Star went viral on YouTube in 2012 . MTV and BBC Radio became aware of him, and Kwabs got a record deal with Atlantic Records . The cooperation with the producer Sohn had a formative influence on the sound of his debut EP Wrong or Wright , the follow-up EP Pray for Love and the single Walk are more pop- oriented. With Walk , Kwabs reached number 71 in the UK singles chart and number 1 in the iTunes music charts. In Germany it reached number one in the official charts in January 2015 .

He worked with Dave Okumu and Plan B on his debut album Love + War . The song Perfect Ruin was released in advance in February 2015 and the song Fight for Love , "modern disco - soul ", backed by "dark beats" in July 2015 . The premiere was postponed several times; the album was released on September 11, 2015. Reviewers spoke of a "consistently solid, sometimes even above-average modern soul", praised the warm, deeply human timbre of his voice in a scratchy balance with chilled electro arrangements.

Discography

Albums

  • 2015: Love + War

EPs

  • 2014: Wrong or Right
  • 2014: Pray for Love
  • 2014: Walk

Singles

  • 2014: Wrong or Right
  • 2014: Walk
  • 2014: Fight For Love
  • 2015: Perfect Ruin
  • 2015: Look Over Your Shoulder

Awards for music sales

Platinum record

  • NorwayNorway Norway
    • 2015: for the single walk

Note: Awards in countries from the chart tables or chart boxes can be found in these.

Country / Region Gold record icon.svg gold Platinum record icon.svg platinum Sales swell
Awards for music sales
(country / region, awards, sales, sources)
Germany (BVMI) Germany (BVMI) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 400,000 musikindustrie.de
Norway (IFPI) Norway (IFPI) 0! G- Platinum record icon.svg platinum1 10,000 ifpi.no
Austria (IFPI) Austria (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 15,000 ifpi.at
Switzerland (IFPI) Switzerland (IFPI) Gold record icon.svg gold1 0! P- 15,000 hitparade.ch
All in all Gold record icon.svg 2 × gold2 Platinum record icon.svg 2 × platinum2

Web links

Commons : Kwabs  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Chart sources: DE AT CH UK
  2. ↑ Kwabs Refutes Biggest Rumor , You FM , December 11, 2014
  3. ↑ Lucy Brisbane: Interview with Southwark singer Kwabs: 'I always knew I deserved better' , Evening Standard , September 12, 2014
  4. ^ A b John D. Buchanan: Kwabs , iTunes
  5. ↑ Thomas Vorreyer: Kwabs: Soul, reloaded ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Spex , February 13, 2014 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  6. ↑ Charlotte Krol: Kwabs - New Music , The Telegraph , September 29, 2014
  7. ↑ musikcharts.net , accessed on December 18, 2014
  8. ↑ You FM: Starinfo Kwabs , You FM , November 21, 2014
  9. ↑ Exclusive video premiere: Kwabs - "Perfect Ruin" , Rolling Stone (German edition) , February 4, 2015
  10. ↑ a b Kathleen Hildebrand: Sad and happy at the same time , Süddeutsche Zeitung , July 3, 2015
  11. ↑ Kai Butterweck: Kwabs - "Love + War". Another BBC discovery on the right track , laut.de.
  12. ↑ Andy Gill: Kwabs, Love + War - Album review: Slow and steady has proved the right way to go , The Independent , August 28, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Kwabs
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adjepong, Kwabena Sarkodee (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British soul singer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH London