Steve McQueen has launched movies at Cannes, Venice, and Telluride. He’s been presented with joyful feedback as “masterful” and declaring his work Oscar-bound and “Small Axe,” his best production which hit the BBC and Amazon Prime Video late last year.

McQueen said, 

“It’s been tremendous. In fact, it’s quite overwhelming and quite emotional, really,”. “I never had a debut like this ever.”

Small Axe, aired on the BBC in 2020 and boasts John Boyega, Letitia Wright, and Naomi Ackie among its star-studded cast 

The song plays during an intimate slow dance in Lovers Rock, part of McQueen’s McQueen has collaborated with Motown Records’ UK imprint to release a soundtrack album from the five films for the first time.

For Small Axe though, McQueen has to go even deeper. He has to work with artists, creators, and music supervisor Ed Bailie, and he also created a musical landscape of contemporary artists. McQueen Said

“This music became a way to make people feel vulnerable, empathy and romance,”.

 “It changed how sound waves and unstructured music can sound to a being. It allowed people to feel whole.”

Those who have watched it have found new life in the songs and artists that have helped to tell its stories. The anthology wouldn’t exist without the music. Even its title is an homage to the 1973 track written by Bob Marley, who McQueen believes to be one of music’s great savior’s.

He also said:

“I think if Bob Marley didn’t exist, a lot of people would’ve had breakdowns,”. “He gave an understanding of oneself in an environment that wasn’t particularly inviting. That’s why from day one, the series was called Small Axe.” 

McQueen was born in 1969, Ealing, west London with a love of music that began in childhood. He absorbed a melting pot of influences from his mum and dad, who emigrated from Grenada and Trinidad.