Lewis Capaldi has been through a lot since his last appearance in Abu Dhabi in 2021. He has certainly changed, but his voice has not. If anything, it has grown stronger, richer and more controlled.
That much was evident during a poignant and powerful set at Saadiyat Nights on Saturday that ran just over an hour and 15 minutes, mixing crowd-pleasing old favourites with his new, self-reflective material.
Capaldi spent about two years offstage, out of the public eye and working out whether he could keep doing what made him famous in the first place.
So when he walked out on a cool evening in the UAE capital, it felt less like the arrival of a chart star and more like the return of someone who had fought his way back to himself.
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