Lewis Capaldi

Lewis Marc Capaldi[2] (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter.[3] He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. In March 2019, his single "Someone You Loved" topped the UK Singles Chart where it remained for seven weeks, and in November 2019, 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. Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist.[4]

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. 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

## Early life

Capaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland,[2] and lived there until he was four years old.[6] He is the youngest of four children. His mother is a nurse and his father is a fishmonger.[7] Capaldi went to school at St. Kentigern's Academy, Blackburn in West Lothian.[8] In 2016, he graduated with a HND in Music from New College Lanarkshire, Motherwell.

### Career

Early childhood
Capaldi learned to play drums and guitar when he was two, and began his musical career singing in pubs aged 9.[10] By 17 he had committed to a career in music. [11]

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 and Rory Green and Zoë Bestel.[12]

Aged 18, he was discovered by his manager Ryan Walter through an iPhone recording Capaldi 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.[13] [14]

He released his debut extended play recording Bloom EP on 20 October 2017,[15] on which he worked with Grammy Award-winning producer Malay, a long-time collaborator of Frank Ocean.[16] He later released his first track "Bruises" 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.[17] Shortly afterwards, he was signed to the German branch of Universal Music Group, and was assigned to Vertigo Berlin division. His releases are distributed in UK by Virgin EMI Records and in North America by Capitol Records

## Personal life

Capaldi is of Scottish, Irish, and Italian ancestry.[33] Through his father's side, Capaldi's second cousin once removed is the actor Peter Capaldi, who appeared in his music video for "Someone You Loved" and was the lead singer and guitarist in a punk rock band called the Dreamboys.[34][35] He is also a distant relative of Barrhead-born nuclear physicist Joseph Capaldi.[36] Capaldi is known for his social media presence, particularly humorous videos.[37]

As of February 2020, Capaldi is still living with his parents in Whitburn, West Lothian,[38] in the same bedroom he has had since he was 10 years old.[39] He is a football fan and supports his hometown club Celtic.[40]

In September 2020, Capaldi moved out of his parents' house in Bathgate, buying a five bedroom mansion near Edinburgh.