Georgia-bred singer, pianist, and soul revivalist Brother Wallace will perform his first UK shows in May 2026. Having last week announced his debut album ‘Electric Love‘ (out 8th May via ATO Records), the singer will make two appearances at The Great Escape before playing a string of shows across the country, culminating in a performance at Cross The Tracks festival in London. Brother Wallace recently shared the album’s title track —a Motown-esque number that’s equal parts playful, revelatory, and gloriously cathartic—alongside an official music video. The track, which has been premiered by The Craig Charles Funk and Soul Show on BBC Radio 6 Music, is a bold first chapter from a voice that feels less like a “new artist” and more like a force that’s been building quietly for years, waiting for the right voltage.
DEBUT UK SHOWS:
May
Thu 14th – The Great Escape, Komedia, Brighton
Fri 15th – The Great Escape, Brighthelm, Brighton
Mon 18th – The Castle, Manchester
Tue 19th – The Exchange, Bristol
Wed 20th – Colours Hoxton, London
Sun 24th – Cross The Tracks, London
On the single ‘Electric Love‘, Brother Wallace doesn’t just sing about joy—he fights for it. The song moves like a shot of sunlight through a storm cloud: Stax-and-satin soul, piano-driven, and bursting with momentum, it’s built for the exact moment when you decide you’re not going to let the world harden you. “It’s about choosing connection,” Wallace says. “Finding that current again—the thing that reminds you you’re alive.”
LISTEN TO ‘ELECTRIC LOVE’
WATCH ‘ELECTRIC LOVE’ VIDEO, DIRECTED BY WILL WALTER
Raised in a small rural town where the church was both community and classroom, Wallace began singing early and started formal piano training at six years old. By 14, he was directing a 100-member choir—leading not from ambition, but from instinct. Music wasn’t extracurricular; it was identity. Still, his path didn’t follow the typical industry arc. Wallace built a life at the intersection of art and service, becoming a K–12 music teacher and shaping young voices day after day, even as his own kept growing into something undeniable.
Over time, that “teacher” story expanded into something bigger, including sharing the stage with gospel legend Kirk Franklin performing at Madison Square Garden. But it wasn’t until a chance meeting sparked a creative partnership—one that stretched across years and continents—that Brother Wallace’s vision began assembling into the album it was always meant to become.
That partnership was with Dan Taylor (The Heavy), who became not just a collaborator but a catalyst. Recorded at Real World Studios (the legendary facility founded by Peter Gabriel) and produced/co-written by Taylor, Electric Love captures the breathless immediacy of Wallace’s performances—engineered and mixed by Bob Mackenzie (James Blake, The 1975, King Krule, SAULT) and Jim Abbiss (Adele, Arctic Monkeys). The result is soul music that feels alive in your hands: gritty, radiant, and built around the kind of vocal that turns rooms silent before it turns them inside out.
Across its 13 songs, Electric Love is less a debut than a revelation—a body of work fueled by gospel roots and classic soul lineage (Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Southern soul greats) while refusing to live in nostalgia. Wallace writes in lived-in scenes and hard-earned feeling: heartbreak without defeat, joy without naïveté, vulnerability without apology. The album’s rhapsodic opener “Who’s That?” (released last fall as his first ATO single) entered the Top 30 at Triple A radio in the US for the first time this week—an amazing feat for his first-ever single. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival. Now, the title track “Electric Love” expands the frame: this is an artist building a world where joy is radical, and connection is survival.
For Brother Wallace, ‘Electric Love’ isn’t just a record. It’s proof of concept: a lifetime of music, faith, teaching, and grit distilled into something that hits like lightning—then stays.