You might know that song, called “Cold Little Heart” as the opening credits to the HBO show Big Little Lies, starring Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon. It was a pretty big deal, but the person who wrote that song, Michael Kiwanuka, didn’t even remember signing off on it at the time the show premiered.
“What’s Big Little Lies? I had completely forgotten about this thing,” he says about that time. “And then my friend a few weeks after that was like, ‘You know, [your song]: it’s the opening credits of that show.’ And I was like, oh, wow!”
The popularity of that show catapulted Michael Kiwanuka to into the spotlight here in the U.S. It also added to his fame at home in the U.K., where he had won the BBC Sound of 2012 poll before even releasing his first album and later saw his second album, 2016’s Love & Hate, debut at No. 1 on the charts.
Picture : Cold Little Heart is a photograph by Jenny Schmiemann