Monaghan pianist says topping charts has turned his life ‘upside down’
by Claudia Savage
Jan 01, 2024
4 minutes
A 22-year-old pianist whose genre-bending blend of classical and Irish traditional influences has topped charts across the world says his life was “turned upside down” by the success.
Jamie Duffy, from Glaslough in Co Monaghan, was studying politics at university in Belfast when he released his first single, Solas.
Solas was the most successful debut song on streaming from an Irish artist since Take Me To Church by Hozier, with more than 60 million plays on Spotify.
He now has nearly one million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, and has been number one in the classical charts in the and Kazakhstan.
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