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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 ]
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.
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 trend sparked a huge interest in sea shanties, with hundreds of thousands of people discovering The Albany Shantymen's recording of "Wellerman", originally released on their 2020 album Are You With Me Lads? [14] [15] The song has been streamed on Spotify over 553,682 times (as of 23 March 2021). [13]
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Steve Travis is an English retired singer-songwriter, musician, recording artist and author. He was born and raised in Colchester, Essex.His biggest selling albums are in the easy listening country style.
Billen Ted was one of the remixers of Nathan Evans' "Wellerman", listed with a main artist credit by the OCC alongside 220 Kid, another of the record's remixers. 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 ...
The song was originally collected around 1966 by the New Zealand-based music teacher and folk song compiler, Neil Colquhoun. [ 8 ] [ 7 ] The song has been performed and remixed, with over ten recorded renditions between 1967 and 2005, including by British band The Longest Johns in 2018 and Scottish singer Nathan Evans in 2020.