The only way is up for Manchester UK based, Irish newcomer Reuben Hester and his debut Sold My Soul.<\/p>\n
TOP40 Irish Radio Airplay Chart #37 \/ Shazam Ireland #51 (climbing) A cracking song with an emotive story.<\/p>\n
Reuben wrote this song in memory of his father Kevin, who passed away last year following a drug overdose.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
“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.”<\/p>\n
“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.”
\n“Words can’t explain the emotions I feel every time I perform this song.”<\/p>\n
Watch Reuben perform his song live and acoustic:
\n“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.”<\/p>\n
“Words can’t explain the emotions I feel every time I perform this song.”<\/p>\n
Reuben Hester is a 25 year old, Irish singer based in Manchester UK.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
His appearance in the BBC show Little Mix “The Search” last autumn, was the start of his solo career.<\/p>\n
The song comes as original “Sold My Soul” and stripped back version “Sold My Soul (To Let Him Know)”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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