Lewis Capaldi and the Poison Chalice of Success
Imposter syndrome affects even the very best of us.
Lewis Capaldi is an outlier in the music industry.
He enjoyed a meteoric rise to fame in 2018 following the success of his debut single Someone You Loved and has since emerged as one of the most talented musicians of his generation. He has sold out hundreds of concerts worldwide and his songs have been streamed over 8 billion times on Spotify alone. He is, by all measures, a superstar.
Yet he remains unapologetically ordinary.
Despite all the trappings of fame, the 26-year-old pop star has kept his feet firmly on the ground and stayed true to his Scottish roots. He wears hoodies and Vans, drinks pints of lager with his mates in the pub and still gets his mum to do his laundry.
This is perhaps why, aside from his incredible talents as a musician, he is so popular with his fans. He is relatable and accessible in a way that most artists never are once they have been polished by the music industry.
He is also an extremely vulnerable human being.
In 2022, Capaldi revealed that he was struggling with Tourette’s syndrome, which was diagnosed after developing a nervous shoulder twitch during the development of his second album, Broken…
