Lewis Capaldi

Scottish singer-songwriter and musician whose single "Someone You Loved" (2018) topped the UK Singles Chart in March 2019 where it remained for seven weeks, and reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 in November 2019. 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. "Someone You Loved" was the bestselling single of 2019 in the UK. 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. He was nominated for the Critics' Choice Award at the 2019 Brit Awards. Capaldi also won the 2020 Brit Award for Best New Artist.

Capaldi is of Scottish, Irish and Italian ancestry, the youngest of four children. He and Scottish actor Peter Capaldi are cousins. Lewis learned how to play guitar when he was nine. Soon, he began writing songs, and playing gigs by sneaking into pubs with the help of his eldest brother. In 2016, Capaldi graduated with an HND in Music from New College Lanarkshire, Motherwell.

He released his first single "Bruises" independently 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.

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. It later went on to become the best-selling album of 2019 and 2020 in the UK. His second album Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent (2023) was supported by the lead single "Forget Me", released in 2022.

After his rise to fame, Capaldi started feeling anxiety and a pressure to perform. He started showing nervous tics. In September 2022, he revealed that he had been diagnosed with Tourette's syndrome. During the COVID-19 pandemic, he moved back to his parents' house in Whitburn, Scotland, to work on his second album.