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Hello, Louis Theru here.

Welcome to my podcast, the Louis Theroux podcast.

Today I'm interviewing the amazing singer-songwriter, The Garage Legend, who's now really an all-round soul man and DJ.

Did I say DJ? I like that better. He's a DJ. Craig David. You will know Craig from his incredible

multi, multi million selling album, Born to Do It. Seems like yesterday because I'm an old fart,

but actually it was about 20 years ago or more. I've seen Craig live at least once. I don't think

I mention it in the conversation,

but I wanted to put that out there.

He's an amazing performer and someone who embodies much of the best about what we can do

musically in the UK, in the sense of being slightly genre defying,

incorporating elements of acoustic guitar, soul balladry.

I've been told that he's slightly confused American audiences

for not squarely fitting in a single musical box. So I love all of that. I love his voice.

I love his unapologetic sort of lover man style of performing. And he's one of those people

who's suave, I think that is Le Mo Joust in this case, whose suave exterior and immaculate styling

belies a rather vulnerable interior, you know, in a sensitivity and almost insecurity that is underneath.

I'm also aware that he's somebody, you know, he wears his heart on his sleeve, and so I knew

that in talking to him,

there'd be an opportunity to go quite deep. He doesn't hold back on expressing those things

that have troubled him over the years. And just to say the episode contains some strong language

and some sensitive and upsetting themes. We spoke remotely and in the wings, I think on his own

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