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In January 2022, Evans appeared as himself in the fourth episode of the seventh series of the Scottish mockumentary series Scot Squad. He accompanies himself with guitar and percussion. Music style Įvans is a singer-songwriter, often using multiple tracks of his own voice. In April 2022, Evans helped publicise the Doctor Who story Legend of the Sea Devils with an adaptation of "Wellerman". Evans released his third single, "Ring Ding (A Scotsman's Story)", on 8 October 2021. Like with "Wellerman", two versions were released: a folk-pop version and a dance-pop remix by Digital Farm Animals. Writing about the nature of Evans's success during the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, Amanda Petrusich wrote in The New Yorker: "It seems possible that after nearly a year of solitude and collective self-banishment, and of crushing restrictions on travel and adventure, the chantey might be providing a brief glimpse into a different, more exciting way of life, a world of sea air and pirates and grog." Įvans's second single, " Told You So", released on 25 June 2021. The performance took place in London aboard an electric GoBoat in the River Thames as a promotion for GoBoat's new location at Canary Wharf.

In May 2021, Evans played his first live show. In February 2021, he signed to United Talent Agency. His growing music career led him to quit his job as a postal worker. Evans plans to release a five-song EP of sea shanties. A dance remix of the song created with producers 220 Kid and duo Billen Ted was released simultaneously. In January 2021, Evans signed a three-single recording contract with Polydor Records, releasing his official version of "Wellerman" on 22 January 2021. In the Rolling Stone article discussing his success, Evans cited The Albany Shantymen version of the song as inspiration. The sea shanties trend on the app has been called "ShantyTok". As of January 2021, "Wellerman" had eight million views on TikTok and as of 29 May, Evans had 1.3 million followers. "Wellerman", which was already well known on the app due to the popularity of his version of the song, quickly gained views on TikTok, inspiring many others to record more sea shanties, to duet and to remix the song, including renditions by composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, comedians Jimmy Fallon and Stephen Colbert, guitarist Brian May, and entrepreneur Elon Musk. In the following months, viewers of his videos continued to request more sea shanties, leading Evans to posting videos of himself singing "The Scotsman" and New Zealand 19th-century maritime song " Wellerman" in December 2020. He posted his first traditional sea shanty, "Leave Her Johnny", to TikTok in July 2020.

Music career Įvans had been posting performances of pop and folk songs to TikTok before beginning to post sea shanties, a song thought to have arisen in New Zealand.


He attended Caldervale High School and has a university degree in web design. Before launching his music career, Evans was a postal worker with the Royal Mail, in Airdrie, near Glasgow.
