E135: Craig David Opens Up About His Painful Rise, Fall & Redemption

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

FlightStory

Society & Culture, Business, Education

4.6 • 13.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2022

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Craig David is a singer and DJ who has sold over 15 million records worldwide. With over 20 years in the music industry, he is one of the world’s best-known singers.

But when he found his career falling away beneath him, Craig had to reinvent himself. Coming back with the incredibly popular TS5, Craig has risen to the top, fallen back and then rebuilt himself back to exactly where he left off.

Nothing reveals the truth about yourself more than having it all and (most of it) being taken away. Craig had to dig deep and express what was true to himself, but first he had to find out what that meant.

Topics:

Your early years
Your model of relationships
Growing up on a council estate
Your early music influences
Your rise in music
How were you dealing with your meteoric rise?
Losing yourself
Your mental health journey
Being back and in a better place
The last guests question

Craig:

https://www.instagram.com/craigdavid/

https://mobile.twitter.com/craigdavid

Sponsors:

Huel - https://my.huel.com/Steven

Myenergi - https://bit.ly/3oeWGnl

Transcript

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0:00.0	Could you do me a quick favor if you're listening to this please hit the follow or subscribe button
0:03.6	It helps more than you know and we invite subscribers in every month to watch the showing person
0:07.7	Making moves yeah on a dance floor
0:10.1	Creepy wind when the crowd say
0:12.5	Oh, great day!
0:13.6	This means so so much to me
0:16.3	Everything I touched was turning to gold
0:18.0	Everyone wanted a piece of me and
0:19.6	How does an 18-19 year old deal with that?
0:22.8	The height of success when it is like, whoa, there's so much of the human part that's being unmet
0:29.2	I felt like I was starting to make music the tick boxes
0:32.9	When I started to do a band in myself and I started to do things that just weren't in alignment
0:36.8	It was a point where I had dark thoughts so I was just like I can't live my life like this
0:41.2	What people enjoyed from me was music and I realized that from when I came back to London
0:46.0	I feel like the kid again and trust me the crowd are gonna go off when they hear something soon, okay?
0:52.9	So 22 years later if you could whisper in the ear of your 14 year old self
0:58.4	What would you whisper?
1:00.4	Listen Craig
1:02.4	Without further ado I'm Stephen Bartlett and this is the die of a CEO
1:05.9	I hope nobody's listening but if you are then please keep this to yourself
1:17.2	Craig I've got some lyrics that I wanted to recite to you
1:20.5	Okay
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