NATHAN EVANS │ WILL THE WELLERMAN BE THIS WEEK'S NUMBER 1? │ STV NEWS

viral hits that's been enjoyed almost 18 billion times and now singer nathan evans has given up the day job to pursue a recording career following the online success of his sea shanty polly bartlett went to meet the postie who's now a pop star [Music] it started with a postman in airdrie and one very catchy sea shanty it grew into the biggest viral trend of the year so far and now less than a month since nathan evans posted the video he signed a record deal and is hoping to top the charts like i was up at the shop the other day and i could hear people behind me going oh my god that's him oh my god i think that's him the other day i was walking up the street and i could see like there was a couple walking down the way on the other side of the road i could see them looking over and then like i think that's like that's that postman that was on the on the telly so i get that quite a bit last week nathan performed on good morning america and appeared on a billboard in times square i was wondering about trying to post letters with my phone up up to my ear and it was just i was like i cannot do this all at the angry so i and then laurie and kelly got in touch and wanted money and i was like right okay now this is an opportunity here and there's loads of opportunities coming so i need to i need to do something about it nathan has been playing the guitar since the age of eight and always dreamed of a career in music but singing sea shanties to make a living well it's a career move he didn't expect the kind of came from all around the world and but the whaler man the one that has went absolutely crazy that's like originated back in 1800s so like sails would use it to keep them morale high on the ships and and to keep everybody in time with their job and what they were doing so that's that's where they came from and tick tock the charts where do you go from here we'll see where the song lands and then hopefully another single or potentially an album somewhere in the future and that would be ideal so and just see where it goes and like i said go over the flossie balms the 19th century sea shanty brought back by one scottish postman and his first class tune polly bartlett stv news got you isn't it

Channel: Polly Bartlett

Views: 167,938

Rating: 4.9206266 out of 5

Keywords: Nathan Evans, TikTok, The Wellerman, Sea Shanty, Scotland, Glasgow, Music, News, Singing

Id: L_efV_PeQQs

Length: 2min 20sec (140 seconds)

Published: Wed Jan 27 2021