The last couple of years have seen the incredible rise of Lewis Capaldi, a young lad who grew up in a small town between Edinburgh and Glasgow while listening to Joe Cocker, Fleetwood Mac and Slipknot on the stereo. He started playing in small pubs when he was barely ten and indulged in a bit of busking. A phone recording on his SoundCloud account led him to be discovered and signed to a major label.

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