Michael Kiwanuka · Spotify · Courtesy of Spotify
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 1
Top works
- Analytical Approach to Linear Audio Frequency Power Amplifier Design
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1987-05-03
soul
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 993,229
- Total plays
- 24,402,950
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soulbluessinger-songwriterjazzfolk
Michael Samuel Kiwanuka (born 3 May 1987) is an English soul musician who is signed to Communion Records. He has been compared to Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield, Bill Withers, Randy Newman, Terry Callier, 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, London, the son of Ugandan parents who had escaped the Amin regime. He attended Fortismere School, leaving there in 2005 after completing his A-Le
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Samuel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Muswell Hill
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Genre
- folk rock
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- www.michaelkiwanuka.com
- Image
- Glasto24 2806 300624 (47 of 382) (53837926593) (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1988-05-03
- start of work period
- 2011-00-00
- Commons category
- Michael Kiwanuka
- social media followers
- 72389
- copyright representative
- PRS for Music
- ancestral home
- Uganda
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