Lewis Capaldi

Hailing from West Lothian in Scotland, 21-year-old Capaldi was singing  and notched up over 25 million plays of his track Bruises in the summer of 2017. Bruises was included on his debut EP, Bloom, in October and the following month, Lewis supported Rag ’N’ Bone Man on his UK tour, Capaldi learned to play the guitar when he was 9 years old, and began his musical career singing in pubs aged 12. He released his debut extended play recording Bloom EP on 20 October 2017, where he worked with Grammy Award winning producer Malay a longtime collaborator of Frank Ocean.

Capaldi rose to prominence following the self release of 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.  Shortly afterward, he was signed to Virgin Records and Capitol Records.

In late 2017, Capaldi was named as one of Vevo dscvr 'Artists to Watch 2018'. Capaldi was also long-listed for BBC Music’s Sound of 2018. He was joined on the list by music stars such as Sigrid, Khalid and Billie Eilish.

He supported Rag N Bone Man on his European tour in November 2017, Milky Chance on their North American leg of the “Blossom” tour in January 2018 and Sam Smith on his The Thrill of It All Tour. He has attracted attention from a wide range of celebrity supporters including Chloe Moretz, Ellie Goulding and Niall Horan  all of which have voiced their support. Subsequently, Horan invited Capaldi to support him at two dates on his Flicker World Tour at the Glasgow SEC Armadillo in March 2018. Irish Indie rock band Kodaline have also invited Capaldi to open for them at a concert in Belfast in August 2018.

In addition to this, Capaldi has been included in the line-ups for many festivals during the summer of 2018, including: Bonnaroo, Firefly, Mountain Jam, Osheaga, Barn on the Farm, Rize and TRNSMT.

Capaldi sold out a 12-date December UK headline tour and a February UK/Europe tour. Where he was supported by Freya Ridings. Lewis Capaldi sold 150 physical copies of his Bloom EP on 28 November 2017, which sold out in about 90 seconds. Capaldi recently announced a show at Glasgow Barrowlands in November 2018. Tickets sold out in less than 20 minutes.

On 22 February 2018, Capaldi released his latest single "Rush" featuring Canadian singer-songwriter Jessie Reyez. The song reached one million streams on Spotify within the first week of release and an official music video was released on 8 March.