Michael Kiwanuka - Light

"You're light to me, my only sun, you'll always shine"

Album: KIWANUKA
Recorded: London, England
Genre: Psychedelic Soul [3rd album]
Album Release: November 1st 2019
Single Release: June 19th 2020
Length: 5.47
Producer: Danger Mouse & Inflo
Vocalist: Michael Kiwanuka [age 32]
Label: Polydor Records (Universal)

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Charts, Streams & Sales

UK (album): Certified gold in November 2020 (100,000 +)
UK albums chart: #2
Spotify = 7,000,000 +
YouTube Music = 2,500,000 +
The album won the Mercury prize for 2020 (his previous two albums were nominated but didn't win)
KIWANUKA was nominated for Best Rock Album at the Grammy Awards 2021
BBC 6 Music Best Albums of 2019: #3
Guardian Best Albums of 2019: #12
NME Best Albums of 2019: #8

Credits

Synths, Cello, Viola, Violin, Drums, Piano, Double Bass, Electric Guitar (Michael Kiwanuka), Acoustic Guitar (Michael Kiwanuka), Bass (Michael Kiwanuka)

Details

• Released as the fourth single from KIWANUKA on June 19th 2020, 7 months after the release of the album.
  
• Kiwanuka, who has struggled with an anxiety disorder for most of his life uses this song to declare that he is finally free by singing the lyrics "all of my fears are gone baby gone gone, it don't bother, don't bother me, no" 
• "I finally accepted that I am a singer, I'm an artist and a songwriter and I love it. That's when I decided to call the album Kiwanuka - because there's no hiding from that." (Michael Kiwanuka talking to the BBC)
  

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