Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me … - Michael Kiwanuka

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Michael Kiwanuka

Listening to a lot of guitar rock and roll music and feeling quite eccentric because everyone expected me to learn and develop like R&B. This kind of made me feel a little bit better, because I realized it was all the same, you know. There's no difference. It's just music.

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