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The song, jointly credited to Nathan Evans and remixers 220 Kid and Billen Ted by the Official Charts Company (OCC), reached number one on the UK Singles Chart. [25] A new version of "Wellerman" with German folk band Santiano was released as a single on 19 February 2021. [26]
Nathan Alexander Evans (born 19 December 1994) is a Scottish singer and songwriter. Evans first gained fame in 2020 by posting videos of himself singing sea shanties on social media service TikTok. In 2021, he released a cover of the folk song "Wellerman", which peaked at the top of the UK Singles Chart and also charted in several other countries.
The accompanying official video was directed by Michael Baldwin and was released on 25 June 2021, along with the release of the song. In the official video, Evans appears in Seaford, East Sussex, Newhaven, Edinburgh, Brighton, Haywards Heath, Crawley, City of London, West Wickham and Crystal Palace, London. [8]
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On 22 January 2021, Scottish musician Nathan Evans released his version of the sea shanty "Soon May the Wellerman Come" with his version being similar to that of British folk group The Longest Johns. [79] [80] At the same time a remix was commissioned by Evans' record company Polydor, with the remixers being 220 Kid and Billen Ted.
Wellerman" is a ballad (often erroneously referred to as a sea shanty) that refers to the wellermen, the supply ships owned by the trading company set up by the Weller Brothers. [7] The song was originally collected around 1966 by the New Zealand-based music teacher and folk song compiler, Neil Colquhoun.
On the UK Singles Chart, his collaboration "Don't Need Love" with Gracey peaked at number 9 in 2020, [8] while his remix of Nathan Evans' "Wellerman" with Billen Ted reached the top spot in 2021. [9] [10] He is based in Highbury, London. [1]