The only way is up for Manchester UK based, Irish newcomer Reuben Hester and his debut Sold My Soul.
TOP40 Irish Radio Airplay Chart #37 / Shazam Ireland #51 (climbing) A cracking song with an emotive story.
Reuben wrote this song in memory of his father Kevin, who passed away last year following a drug overdose.
Ryan Tubridy, Ireland’s biggest chat show host and presenter, invited Reuben for a 15 min. interview last week to chat about his touching story.
Reuben shows us how to channel a hard and painful fate into something creative and good: his song is now TOP40 #37 in the Irish Radio Charts, Shazam Ireland #51 and since 4 weeks with Germany`s biggest AC station, the national broadcaster SWR3, on daytime rotation.
Singer Songwriter Reuben Hester, who plays the guitar, piano and cello, released his debut single “Sold My Soul”. The song is a thoughtful but at the same time highly powerful pop song with influences from breakbeat, urban and r`n`b and a huge hymnic chart-breaker chorus.
“I wrote this song shortly after my father’s passing. I was struggling with the pain and slowly found myself slipping into a dark place. Most days I felt like I couldn’t write and eventually I stopped feeling anything at all. It was a difficult time.”
“Music brought me back to life. Everything I felt was put into this song. It is the most heartfelt and honest piece I have ever written.”
“Words can’t explain the emotions I feel every time I perform this song.”
Watch Reuben perform his song live and acoustic:
“I wrote this song shortly after my father’s passing. I was struggling with the pain and slowly found myself slipping into a dark place. Most days I felt like I couldn’t write and eventually I stopped feeling anything at all. It was a difficult time. Music brought me back to life. Everything I felt was put into this song. It is the most heartfelt and honest piece I have ever written.”
“Words can’t explain the emotions I feel every time I perform this song.”
Reuben Hester is a 25 year old, Irish singer based in Manchester UK.
Reuben, who under his former stage name China Lane, reached #1 of the Spotify Viral Charts in Netherlands and a sync placement in NETFLIX series “Insatiable”, has been described as Funky/Electronic Pop orientated, with grooving rhythms and catchy pop hooks.
His appearance in the BBC show Little Mix “The Search” last autumn, was the start of his solo career.
The song comes as original “Sold My Soul” and stripped back version “Sold My Soul (To Let Him Know)”