Michael Kiwanuka

Michael Kiwanuka at the Haldern Pop Festival 2019

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

Home Again   DE 17th 03/23/2012 (12 weeks)   AT 13 03/23/2012 (6 weeks)   CH 13 03/25/2012 (14 weeks)   UK 4th  gold March 24, 2012 (19 weeks)   US 86 05/19/2012 (6 weeks) Love & Hate   DE 6th 07/22/2016 (8 weeks)   AT 11 07/29/2016 (4 weeks)   CH 4th 07/24/2016 (11 weeks)   UK 1  gold 07/22/2016 (26 weeks)   US 170 08/06/2016 (1 week) Kiwanuka   DE 23 11/08/2019 (3 weeks)   AT 31 11/15/2019 (3 weeks)   CH 8th 11/10/2019 (3 weeks)   UK 2  silver 11/14/2019 (18 weeks)   US 142 11/16/2019 (1 week)

Singles

Home Again   UK 29 01/14/2012 (7 weeks)

Michael Samuel Kiwanuka (born May 3, 1987 in London ) is a British soul musician and songwriter .

Career

Kiwanuka's parents are from Uganda ; he grew up in Muswell Hill in north London . At the age of 16 he started playing guitar and composing songs and played in rock bands. He later discovered the soul music of the 1960s for himself. He studied jazz music and made money as a studio musician before embarking on his solo career. Paul Butler from the band The Bees noticed him and produced his first EP with him and Communion Records signed him. His song Tell Me a Tale made it onto the BBC playlist in mid-2011. In the same year Adele hired him for her support program on the European tour.

In early 2012, Kiwanuka was voted # 1 on the BBC's Sound of 2012 forecast . Then the song Home Again was released as a single and hit the UK charts. The debut album of the same name was released across Europe in March and was successfully placed in many countries. It reached the top 10 in England, Belgium, the Netherlands, Sweden and Norway, among others. While there was much to be praised on this debut album, the Guardian's critic on the follow-up album Love & Hate (2016) astonished the self-confidence with which he staged the songs, "not least because of the unobtrusive warmth and the quality of his voice". Love & Hate topped the charts and sold very well in the UK.

The simply titled Kiwanuka third long player lagged behind the sales figures of its predecessor, if only slightly. The radio broadcaster ByteFM described the work, which Allmusic categorized as “21st century psychedelic soul”, as an “ album in the traditional sense” that exhausts the format and is not optimized for streaming services .

Discography

Albums

• Tell Me a Tale (EP, 2011)
• Home Again (2012)
• Love & Hate (2016)
• Kiwanuka (2019)

Songs

• Tell Me a Tale (2010)
• I'm Getting Ready (2011)
• Home Again (2011)
• I'll Get Along (2011)
• Bones (2011)
• Always Waiting (2012)
• You've Got Nothing to Lose (2014)
• Black Man in a White World (2016)
• Love & Hate (2016)
• One More Night (2016)
• Cold Little Heart (2016, UK:silver; US:gold)

Web links

Commons : Michael Kiwanuka  - Collection of Images

• Sound of 2012: Michael Kiwanuka , Mark Savage, BBC, Jan 6, 2012
• official website (English)
• Interview ( laut.de )
• Michael Kiwanuka at Allmusic (English)

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1. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: DE AT CH UK US
2. ↑ ^{a b} Music Sales Awards: UK US
3. ↑ New band of the day - Michael Kiwanuka (No 1,029) , Paul Lester, Guardian, May 24, 2011
4. ↑ Jonathan Fischer: The homecomer. The time Nº 12/2012, March 16, 2012, accessed on February 2, 2014 . 
5. ↑ Michael Kiwanuka wins the Sound of 2012! , BBC
6. ↑ Michael Kiwanuka: Love & Hate review - soul-searching with the tang of authenticity. In: The Guardian. July 14, 2016, accessed August 19, 2019 . 
7. ↑ ByteFM Editor: Michael Kiwanuka - "Kiwanuka" (album of the week). In: www.byte.fm. ByteFM, October 28, 2019, accessed February 15, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Tom Jurek: Kiwanuka Album Review. In: www.allmusic.com. Allmusic, accessed on February 15, 2020 .