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    Is Lewis Capaldi — a Brit with a canyon-sized voice and an ugly-cry smash — the new Adele?

    by Mikael Wood, Los Angeles Times Oct 21, 2019 4 minutes

    BOSTON - Lewis Capaldi is the ugly-cry balladeer of 2019.

    Standing onstage recently at the Royale nightclub here, the singer from Glasgow with the rough-edged voice delivered only a few lines of his chart-topping "Someone You Loved" before nearly every member of the capacity crowd took up the song, hungry for the catharsis to be found in bellowing Capaldi's words about the emotional cost of a loved one's departure.

    "Now the day bleeds / Into nightfall," hundreds of them roared, all but drowning out the 23-year-old behind the microphone, "And you're not here / To get me through it all."

    When he finished the stately, methodically paced tune - virtually inescapable on U.S. pop radio over the past few months -

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