![]() In May, Capaldi joined British singer Sam Smith on their The Thrill of It All European Tour, opening for Smith over 19 dates. Irish singer Niall Horan invited Capaldi to support him on two dates on his Flicker World Tour at the Glasgow SEC Armadillo in March. On 23 February, his collaboration " Rush" with Canadian singer and songwriter Jessie Reyez was released. In January 2018, he joined German rock band Milky Chance on their North American leg of the Blossom tour. He supported English singer-songwriters Rag'n'Bone Man and Jake Bugg on their tours in the fall of 2017. 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. His releases are distributed in the UK by Virgin EMI Records and in the US by Capitol Records. 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. The song was later re-released as a single in 2019 and reached a peak of no.6 on the UK Singles Chart. 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 released his first single " Bruises" independently on 31 March 2017. 2017–2018: Extended plays and increased recognitionĬapaldi performing at the 2018 Ilosaarirock Festival in Joensuu, Finland In 2016, Capaldi graduated with an HND in Music from New College Lanarkshire, Motherwell. The day after first contacting Capaldi, Walter flew from America to Britain to hear Capaldi play live. 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. He played in Dumfries, Edinburgh and Fort William alongside Jacob, Rory Green and Zoë Bestel. ![]() In 2014 Capaldi took part in a three-date tour as part of the Hit the Road project run by The Scottish Music Centre. Soon, he began writing songs, and playing gigs by sneaking into pubs with the help of his eldest brother. ![]() He learned how to play guitar when he was nine. Capaldi's passion for performing started after he sang on stage at the age of 4 on a family trip in France. His birth came as a surprise to his family after his father underwent a vasectomy. Capaldi is of Scottish, Irish and Italian ancestry. Early lifeĬapaldi was born in Glasgow, Scotland, and lived there until he was 4 years old before the family moved to Bathgate in West Lothian. 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. It later went on to become the best selling album of 20 in the UK, and "Someone You Loved" was the best selling single of 2019 in the UK. On, he released his debut album, Divinely Uninspired to a Hellish Extent, which remained at the top of the UK Albums Chart for six weeks. ![]() Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist. In March 2019, his single " Someone You Loved" 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. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. Lewis Marc Capaldi (born 7 October 1996) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician.
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