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# up in space, man. sam ryder, welcome to bbc breakfast. thank you so much for having me. are you ok? yeah, i m good. what about you, though? it s two weeks to go. mm-hm. what is still on your mental checklist before you go to italy? you know what? i feel good. touch wood. yep. i feeljust focused, calm, i m just ready to soak it all in and be there and be present for the experience. for people who don t know the sam ryder story, tell us about. tell us about growing up. i grew up in a house of music, not that my parents were musicians, but theyjust loved music. records playing constantly. earth, wind and fire, beautiful south, queen. and even now, they listen to the same records, like, full blast. i mean, full blast, when they re like cleaning the house or mowing the lawn. my neighbours all know. the records will be playing so loud, so they can still hear it over the lawnmower. tell me aboutjoining tiktok and posting covers. what inspired you to do that? well, i d been working in constr
earth, wind and fire, beautiful south, queen. and, like, even now, they listen to the same records, like, full blast. i mean, full blast, when they re like cleaning the house or mowing the lawn. my neighbours all know. the records will be playing so loud, so they can still hear it over the lawnmower. sam came to fame during lockdown, after he started posting cover versions on the video sharing website tiktok. i d been working in construction for years and years and then sort of started singing at weddings. it took, you know, lockdown to happen, for the weddings and stuff to be cancelled, all of us to be stuck indoors, for me to sort of think, you know, i don t want to stop singing just because i can t sing at people s weddings now. but how am i going to do that? it was, i guess, kind of a digital way of me flicking through a record collection. the first video was hit me baby one more time by britney spears. i sang it as high as i could in my mum s kitchen. and it all started snowballin
was it 1997? somebody said that in my ear. and the bookies think that sam ryder, who has an amazing voice and became famous in lockdown, he is the entry this year. our music correspondent mark savage, has been to meet him. # up in space, man! sam ryder, welcome to bbc breakfast. thank you so much for having me. are you 0k? yeah, i m good. what about you, though? it s two weeks to go. what is still on your mental checklist before you go to italy? you know what? i feel good. touch wood. yep. i feeljust focused, calm, i m just ready to soak it all in and be there and be present for the experience. for people who don t know the sam ryder story, tell us about. tell us about growing up. i grew up in a house of music, not that my parents were musicians,