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Nathan Evans, the postman behind the viral sea shanty trend on TikTok, has quit his day job to pursue a career in music. Who knew a sea shanty would be the first big hit of 2021? If you've killed some ...

From Wellerman to Drunken Sailor, sea shanties are attracting the attention of landlubber TikTokers. "It went wild. I don't really know what happened," says the guy at the center of it all. Erin ...

LONDON — With his renditions of centuries-old sea shanties, Nathan Evans has spawned a global craze on the ultra-modern social media platform TikTok. Millions have watched his rendition of "Wellerman" ...

Nathan Evans takes his sea shanty "Wellerman" from Tiktok to the Billboard Global charts. By Eric Frankenberg The Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts launched in September and ...

Over the last month you might’ve come across a TikTok featuring a Scottish lad with a thick accent covering a seafaring folk song called The Wellerman. That lad is Nathan Evans and while The Wellerman ...

Amid the global media coverage of the pandemic and Donald Trump’s final days as US president, an unexpected music genre went viral on TikTok: traditional sea shanties, spurring what has become known ...

2021 kicked off with a postman quitting his job and getting a record deal after his Soon May the Wellerman Come sea shanty recording went viral If you've killed some time scrolling on social media, ...