Michael Kiwanuka wins 2020 Mercury prize

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Folk-soul singer wins £25,000 prize on third attempt for the album Kiwanuka, described by the Guardian as one of the best albums of the past decade

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His album, released in November 2019, draws equally from folk and soul as the songwriter sings of freedom, love, and struggles both personal and collective; one track samples protests during the 1960s US civil rights movement. It wasas a “bold, expansive, heartfelt, sublime album. He’s snuck in at the final whistle, but surely this is among the decade’s best.” It reached No 2 on release, and spent 18 weeks in the UK charts.

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Why does Guardian writer, Ben Beaumont Thomas refer to michaelkiwanuka as a ‘folk-soul singer’? So much more to him and his music than that label

Brilliant, well deserved.

Seriously good choice

Well deserved a brilliant winner but obviously the guardian have not heard any of his three albums because he’s not a boring fucking folk singer

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About time. 👍🏻

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Seen him on the one show, seems a genuine great guy. Well done mate 👏

Congratulations! Well deserved!

Well deserved- heard him first on KellyAnneByrne2 unreal

And then some say kids don't have guitar hero's anymore... Amazing artist, amazing band.

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Zurecht! Kaufen!

Congratulations! 🎉🎂🇺🇲

Fancy that, (none of it actually means anything now it's all about ticking boxes) but well done

Well deserved he’s a great songwriter.

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