Awaken, My Love!

Description

Childish Gambino is (and isnt) Donald Glover, a recording artist, writer, actor, director, producer and comic who was gifted his alias by an online Wu Tang-Clan name-generator. Originally hailing from Stone Mountain, Georgia his Mum was a daycare provider and his Dad a postal worker, where TV was banned in the house Glover first entered the spotlight as a member of sketch-troupe Derrick Comedy, via a stint working on The Daily Show and the invitation to join the 30 Rock writing staff by Tina Fey before hed even graduated from NYU. A succession of mini-albums and mixtapes surrounded all of this, parallel to acting roles ranging from The Muppets to NBCs cult hit comedy Community. It was 2011s debut album Camp his first since signing to Glassnote Records which marked a breakthrough for Childish Gambino, whose music explores everything from identity, race, and technology to hip-hop culture, class, and family. Follow-up because the internet went top 10 on the Billboard chart, was nominated for 2 Grammy Awards and further assimilated Gambinos multiple disciplines (it was accompanied, for instance, by two films and a standalone 72-page screenplay). Around this time and between roles in HBOs Girls and movies like The Martian Glover also announced that he was working on his own TV show: a comedy-drama which he would star in, write and direct, Atlanta premiered on FX this autumn to significant critical acclaim (its already been described as Twin Peaks with rappers). The show was launched alongside the third Childish Gambino, Awaken, My Love!, this summer at Pharos, a series of secretive, audio-visual live performances which took place in a custom-designed dome in the middle of the desert in Joshua Tree. A second series of Atlanta has already been commissioned, whilst Glover has recently been cast in the forthcoming Spider Man movie and has also been confirmed to play the iconic role of Lando Calrissian in the next Star Wars film (a Han Solo spin-off). His most vital artistic statement to date, Childish Gambino is expected to unveil further music from Awaken, My Love! in the coming weeks.