Josh Kumra is the young 21-year-old from Swindon, Wiltshire, who is fast picking up a name, not least in his comparisons to Ray LaMontagne or Ben Harper.
Unless you spent the summer of 2011 on Plane Zed, you wil no doubt have come across his voice when Wretch 32 re-worked one of his songs, ‘Don’t Go’, leading to a #1 single and Josh taking to the stages of Glastonbury and V, as well as performing on ‘Later With Jools Holland’ and Radio One’s Live Lounge.
‘Waiting For You’ is a suitably accomplished first taster of what Kumra will be delivering on his debut long player; a song that sees Josh’s exquisitely textured, husky vocals preside over a choir of gravel-digging gospel and marching blues soul, it is stylistically evocative of both Gnarls Barkley and of Kanye West’s ‘Jesus Walks', with the beautiful and distinctive production coming courtesy of the renowned artist Fink.
'Waiting For You' is released on January 6 2013 on RCA.
Josh will be playing at the Union Chapel on December 14 2012, and will also be opening for Lianne La Havas on Feb 28, March 1, 2, 4 2013
Watch the video for ‘Waiting For You’ here:
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