Sigala with 'The Brighter Days Tour'

Type : Concerts

In the space of just eight months, 25-year-old Bruce Fielder has gone from nowhere to essentially dominating the UK dance scene. As Sigala, he's already scored one gargantuan Number 1 single in the shape of the Jackson 5-sampling, tropical house-inspired Easy Love (his and Ministry of Sound's first Platinum-selling single has sold over 600,000 copies, and spent 41 weeks in the chart) then followed that up with two Top 5 singles - Sweet Lovin' featuring Bryn Christopher (over 565,000 sales), and the DJ Fresh/Imani collaboration Say You Do

Oh and his current single, the glorious funk-meets-disco-meets-house shimmer of Give Me Your Love, features powerhouse vocalist John Newman and actual living legend Nile Rodgers. Over the space of four singles (and over 1.6 million sales in the UK alone), Sigala has showcased his skills not only as a producer, but as a songwriter, consciously showing off different sides to his musicality. This isn't the case of DJ-turned-artist, but rather artist who makes songs first, DJs later. “I listen to the radio so I like to keep my ear to the ground, but at the same time I don't want to copy myself or recycle the same sound,” he says. “I want to show that I can do different things. I want the album to show different sides to me.”

Growing up in rural Norfolk, “right out in the countryside so you had to make your own fun”, Fielder was surrounded by music. While his house was full of Queen records thanks to his parents, his grandparents gave him the first taste of musical instruments. “My granddad on my mum's side used to play harmonica and the organ, my nan used to play the organ too. So my mum would take me round there and there'd be all these musical toys to play with.” Describing himself as “a bit of a pain” as a kid, his parents decided to find things to distract him. When he was eight he was given a set of drums but bored of them quickly. Next was a guitar, but without lessons he grew bored of that too. One thing that did grab his attention, however, was a small keyboard on the guitar itself. “I'd sit there just playing with that,” he remembers. “So my parents got me a keyboard and I started having lessons. I remember we had to do this concert at a school and everybody chickened out and so nobody played the song but me. I was playing and they were miming along to it.”

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