This week, as part of our All Eyes On series, our eyes are on new singer Tom Grennan, who’s already caught the eye of Sir Elton John with his gravelly Bedford-born voice and got discovered while he was singing karaoke – drunk.
Tom Grennan’s story of the start of his music career is how everyone wishes they could be discovered – drunk and belting out a song at a house party.
The 21-year-old Bedford born, London based lad had no idea he could sing. He had a promising career in football ahead of him, until that dream was crushed and it all came to an end. He had been playing for Luton Town, Northampton Town, Aston Villa and Stevenage when he got dropped.
‘All I remember thinking was ‘I am going to get really pissed tonight”, he told Metro.co.uk of having his football dream shattered. ‘So I went to a party, got really really drunk and then started singing. And that’s how it… Read the full story
from Metro http://metro.co.uk/2017/11/12/all-eyes-on-tom-grennan-got-discovered-drunk-singing-at-a-party-now-hes-a-favourite-of-elton-john-7072276/
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