Claude says:Michael Kiwanuka is the London-born son of Ugandan immigrants who escaped Idi Amin's regime — he broke through winning the BBC Sound of 2012 and later took the Mercury Prize in 2020. This live session captures him in early 2017, right as his second album Love & Hate was cementing his reputation for richly textured soul that pulls from folk, blues, and '70s orchestration. You played through it that February, landing hardest on "Black Man In A White World" and the title track, though it was a brief encounter rather than something that stuck around.