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album thumb 2024 - Small Changes
album thumb 2019 - Kiwanuka
album thumb 2016 - Love & Hate
album thumb 2012 - Home Again


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Origin
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Genre
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Style
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Born

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Active
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5 users heart off Michael Kiwanuka - Home Again
4 users heart off Michael Kiwanuka - Tell Me a Tale
4 users heart off Michael Kiwanuka - I'm Getting Ready
4 users heart off Michael Kiwanuka - I'll Get Along
3 users heart off Michael Kiwanuka - Bones


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Tell Me a Tale
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Home Again
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Artist Biography
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Michael Kiwanuka is a British soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Bill Withers, Randy Newman, and Otis Redding, as well as Van Morrison and the Temptations. In January 2012 he won the BBC's Sound of 2012 poll.

Kiwanuka grew up in Muswell Hill, North London, the son of Ugandan parents who had escaped the Amin regime. He attended Fortismere School, leaving there in 2005 after completing his A-Levels. He was regarded as a very friendly and modest student with a huge circle of friends and a great appreciation for all different genres of music. He could regularly be seen in school concerts and recitals playing bass guitar and jazz guitar. He then went on to study at the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster.

Kiwanuka has acknowledged influences from musicians such as Bill Withers, Otis Redding,Jack Johnson, Pops Staples, The Band, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Eric Bibb, Tommy Sims, Richie Havens, and has played with James Gadson, who drummed for Bill Withers.
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Last Edit by zag
25th Nov 2024

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