Renell Shaw

Renell Shaw is an Ivor Novello Award Winning Composer and platinum selling songwriter. 2020 was the year that Renell gained widespread recognition and won the Ivor Novello Award for his composition ‘The Windrush Suite’. The first of a two-part collection that he has written, pays homage to his Caribbean heritage and the pioneering voices of the Windrush generation who began to arrive in England from the West Indies in 1948. As well as being a close writer and multi-instrumentalist for Rudimental, Renell has written, collaborated and toured alongside artists such as Orphy Robinson MBE, Emeli Sandé, Skepta, Anne-Marie, Nile Rodgers Speech Debelle, Nitin Sawhney CBE, Afronaut Zu, Jess Glynne, Liam Bailey and Carleen Anderson. Renell is a co-creator of the Soulful House/Afro-Electronic production duo 2fox. With over 25 million streams on spotify, and 300,000 monthly listeners, 2fox’s eclectic sound of is rapidly on the rise. Theatre and Stage Credits: Is God Is (Royal Court), Othello, The Crucible (Shakespeare's Globe Theatre), Capot (Aix-en-Provance), Vivaldi - Four Seasons of The Caribbean (Leeds International Concert Season), Pride - A Lion’s Roar (Music theatre Wales), Heart by Jade Anouka (Audible Theatre), Brief Encounter, Bagdad Café, Wuthering Heights (Wise Children), Kneehigh’s Ubu (Kneehigh), Cage Street Memorial (Carleen Anderson). “A breath of fresh air, made in the UK” - Jazzie B (Soul II Soul).