Lewis Capaldi

Lewis Marc Capaldi (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician.

In 2014 Capaldi took part in a three-date tour as part of the Hit the Road project run by The Scottish Music Centre.

He played in Dumfries, Edinburgh and Fort William alongside Jacob, Rory Green and Zoë Bestel.

When he was 18, his manager Ryan Walter discovered him by an iPhone recording that was recorded in his bedroom and had uploaded to his SoundCloud account.

The day after first contacting Capaldi, Walter flew from America to Britain to hear Capaldi play live.

In 2016, Capaldi graduated with an HND in Music from New College Lanarkshire, Motherwell.

He released his first single "Bruises" independently on 31 March 2017.

The song quickly amassed close to 28 million plays on Spotify worldwide, making him the fastest ever unsigned artist to reach 25 million plays on the platform.

He supported English singer-songwriters Rag'n'Bone Man and Jake Bugg on their tours in the fall of 2017.

In January 2018, he joined German rock band Milky Chance on their North American leg of the Blossom tour.

On 23 February, his collaboration "Rush" with Canadian singer and songwriter Jessie Reyez was released.

Irish singer Niall Horan invited Capaldi to support him on two dates on his Flicker World Tour at the Glasgow SEC Armadillo in March.

In May, Capaldi joined British singer Sam Smith on their The Thrill of It All European Tour, opening for Smith over 19 dates.

He followed this with his own headlining tour across the UK and Europe.

Capaldi was named as one of Vevo DSCVR 'Artists to Watch 2018' and he won Best Acoustic Act at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards.

He was also long-listed for BBC Music's Sound of 2018.

In August, Irish Indie rock band Kodaline invited Capaldi to open for them at a concert in Belfast.

In addition to this, Capaldi performed at many festivals during the summer of 2018, including: Lollapalooza, Bonnaroo, Firefly, Mountain Jam, Osheaga, Reading & Leeds Festival, Rize and TRNSMT.

On 8 November, Capaldi's second extended play Breach, which included his single "Tough", was released.

The Breach track "Someone You Loved" became Capaldi's breakthrough single, charting in 29 countries.

He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards.

In March 2019, his single "Someone You Loved" (2018) topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks, and in November 2019, it reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100; it was nominated at the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards for Song of the Year and won the 2020 Brit Award for Song of the Year.

"Someone You Loved" was the bestselling single of 2019 in the UK.

On 17 May 2019, he released his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, which remained at the top of the UK Albums Chart for six weeks.

It later went on to become the best-selling album of 2019 and 2020 in the UK.

His second album Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (2023) was supported by the lead single "Forget Me", released in 2022.

Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and lived there until he was 4 years old, when his family moved to East Whitburn in West Lothian.

Capaldi is of Scottish, Irish and Italian ancestry.

He is the youngest of four children.

His mother becoming pregnant with Lewis came as a surprise to his family, being called a sort of "immaculate conception", because his father had had a vasectomy.

Capaldi's passion for performing started after he sang on stage at the age of 4 on a family trip in France.

He learned how to play guitar when he was nine.

Soon, he began writing songs, and playing gigs by sneaking into pubs with the help of his eldest brother.

The song was later re-released as a single in 2019 and reached a peak of no.6 on the UK Singles Chart.

After the initial release of the song, he was signed to the German branch of Universal Music Group, and was assigned to the Vertigo Berlin division.

His releases are distributed in the UK by Virgin EMI Records and in the US by Capitol Records.

His debut single, as well as the songs "Lost on You" and "Fade" were featured on his first extended play Bloom and later on his upcoming album.

During his 2019 tour with Bastille, the song reached number one on the UK Singles Chart and remained at the position for 7 weeks.

Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist.

In May 2020, it was announced that Capaldi's song "Someone You Loved" had become the longest-running top 10 UK single of all time by a British artist.