{"id":15773,"date":"2026-09-25T05:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/25\/everyone-can-relate-to-pain-and-struggle-so-im-sharing-mine-michael-kiwanuka-on-life-after-his-devastating-stroke-culture-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T05:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T05:32:29","slug":"everyone-can-relate-to-pain-and-struggle-so-im-sharing-mine-michael-kiwanuka-on-life-after-his-devastating-stroke-culture-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culturalleft.org\/cl\/2026\/09\/25\/everyone-can-relate-to-pain-and-struggle-so-im-sharing-mine-michael-kiwanuka-on-life-after-his-devastating-stroke-culture-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. 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All was going perfectly for the virtuoso singer-songwriter, whose eccentric, genre-busting mix of psychedelic rock, prog soul, blues and gospel had marked him as a real one-off.<\/p>\n<p>Kiwanuka had been expected to appear at the All Together Now festival in County Waterford, Ireland, in the coming days, when an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/music\/michael-kiwanuka-cancels-all-forthcoming-shows-due-to-continued-illness-3881337\">announcement<\/a> was posted to his Instagram story: \u201cWe are so sorry to announce that due to continued illness, and on the advice of doctors, Michael will sadly be unable to perform at the rest of his scheduled festival performances throughout the rest of the summer and the shows in North America in October.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/25\/michael-kiwanuka-life-after-devastating-stroke\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/2026\/sep\/25\/michael-kiwanuka-life-after-devastating-stroke\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/e7b3e0222c091cfb6daec0077b3eea0edd2f30bb\/0_905_2832_2264\/master\/2832.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=9d7c6e35b29687b1f372e3e5f1ec03ab\" title=\"\u2018Everyone can relate to pain and struggle. 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