Michael Kiwanuka - the sound of 2012

Hearing Jimi Hendrix convinced singer-songwriter Michael Kiwanuka that it was cool for a black kid to play guitar. Now the young Londoner with the mature voice has been picked for the BBC's 'Sound of 2012' awardThese might come to seem precious hours for Michael Kiwanuka, when he looks back. It's a slow Thursday afternoon, bland and chilly in that specially offensive January way, the 25-year-old folk singer wrapped in a duffel coat and sitting unnoticed in the depths of a London bar. Tomorrow he...

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