{"id":7632,"date":"2024-02-29T22:28:11","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/surrey\/?p=7632"},"modified":"2024-02-29T22:28:23","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T22:28:23","slug":"sam-ryder-surrey-bound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rocksmag.com\/surrey\/sam-ryder-surrey-bound\/","title":{"rendered":"SAM RYDER \u2013 SURREY BOUND"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">News broke this month of the return of Surrey\u2019s most treasured family festival, Guilfest. After a 10-year hiatus the award-winning festival is back on 29<sup>th<\/sup> and 30<sup>th <\/sup>June with top acts including our cover star Sam Ryder, Boyzlife, The Stranglers, Black Grape, Peter Hook and The Light. What\u2019s more Sam Ryder is such a huge fan of our beautiful home county he is also performing at the Hampton Court Palace Festival in June and also Pub in the Park Reigate in July. But what is the deal with Sam? How did he go from a relative unknown in 2020 to the huge star he is today?<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">UNKNOWN ARTIST TO GLOBAL SUPERSTAR<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 2020, as the world went into lockdown, Sam Ryder uploaded the first of his now infamous covers. They quickly caught the attention of some famous fans (think Justin Bieber, Sia, Alicia Keys and Elton John) with compilations of his videos appearing on The Ellen Show, BBC\u2019s Newsbeat and more. As the videos kept coming, so did the fans!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Fast forward 4 years and Sam Ryder stands with 18M social followers and is in the running to be crowned as Tik Tok\u2019s most popular UK artist account for the second year in a row. This would be no mean feat should it happen, especially with Ed Sheeran in full campaign mode and a favourite to take this crown.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam\u2019s 5 song EP \u2018The Sun\u2019s Gonna Rise\u2019 rolled out a track at a time, amassed some 45 million streams globally. He has spent much of his adult life touring, writing and performing in bands, lived in Hawaii for a while and even owned a vegan coffee shop before closing it down and deciding the time was right to pursue his dream of becoming a solo artist.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">The culmination of the EP campaign was the release of More, a song that touched the hearts of almost all who heard it. With the powerful chorus stating \u201cAll anyone wants is more time, more life, more healing\u201d fans were often able to connect that sentiment to their own lives with 1,000s of stories emerging on line of a song that comforted those who were sick, had relatives who were unwell or who were simply sick of being separated from their loved ones.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then came the first foray into the world of live shows for Sam Ryder the solo artist. First of just moments after the restrictions on venues lifted Sam performed a free show as a thank you to the fans that had joined him in the preceding year, at Dalston Roof Park. The predicted thunderstorms stayed away, the fans didn\u2019t and they came out in their droves. But did that mean Sam would sell tickets? Yes he would. A subsequent first paid ticketed event at London\u2019s Courtyard Theatre in October sold out in under ten minutes, this was followed by the announcement of Sam\u2019s first ever full UK tour for 2022. The whole tour sold out so quickly that a second London show at Lafayette went on sale, only to sell out again meaning a third now sold out show was announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">So if 2020 was about lockdown and 2021 was about the beginnings of releasing original solo material, Sam representing the United Kingdom at Eurovision 2022 with song \u2018Space Man\u2019 where he became the highest scoring UK entrant with 466 points. Only to be outdone by Ukraine in what can only be seen as a bit of a sympathy vote due to the ongoing war with Russia, the UK and Sam were sort of the people\u2019s winners on the night!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Then there was his amazing performance at the palace for the Queen\u2019s Platinum Jubilee in his sequined union jack suit, also in 2022!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sam\u2019s Tik Tok causing quite a stir took over most of 2023 plus a whole raft of collaborations in discussion it seems that world domination might not be a stretch too far for this incredible talent in 2024.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">That\u2019s after he has done his fill of Surrey Festivals!<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News broke this month of the return of Surrey\u2019s most treasured family festival, Guilfest. 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