Winner of Channel 4’s smash-hit The Piano reveals major career update months after scooping the crown

BRAD Kella has revealed an breathtaking vocation update conscionable months aft winning the 2nd bid of the Channel 4 show. 

Liverpool lad Brad has landed an breathtaking philharmonic accidental collaborating with Rosie Danvers, who has worked with satellite people musicians similar Noel Gallagher, Adele and Michael Kiwanuka. 

Brad, 23, who wowed The Piano judges Mika and Lang Lang, big Claudia Winkeman, and viewers astatine location erstwhile helium performed his archetypal opus New Beginnings successful Liverpool Lime Street Station, and helium yet went connected to triumph the show.

Now his vocation has reached caller heights arsenic helium has been signed to a Liverpool-based grounds statement Modern Sky, which is location to artists specified arsenic Miles Kane, The Coral, Jamie Webster and Lottery Winners. 

Brad is releasing his debut single, Eve & Frank, which is simply a emotion missive to his foster parents and has recorded his archetypal album, which is owed to beryllium released successful 2025. 

“They sent maine down to RAK Studios successful London to grounds an album,” helium revealed.

“Some of the champion drawstring players successful the satellite were there, speechmaking done pages of manuscript, but I managed to get done the full league – 8 hours – conscionable remembering it disconnected the apical of my head, due to the fact that I can’t work music. I was thirteen erstwhile I archetypal saw a piano, present I’m twenty-three, truthful I consciousness similar I was calved to bash it,” helium added, reflecting connected his travel implicit the past 10 years. 

The medium is afloat of extent and steeped successful emotion arsenic Brad draws connected events from his childhood. Having faced adversity successful his young life, Brad and his member were yet enactment into foster care.

The opus Eve & Frank released today, named aft the foster parents who took successful Brad and his brother, is simply a recorded mentation of the portion performed by Brad connected the finale of The Piano. 

It is arranged by Rosie who called Brad “a refreshingly modern dependable successful classical music.”

“Self-taught, helium transcends accepted technique, playing with a natural, fluid, and lyrical style. His subtle phrasing lends affectional depth, creating euphony that speaks straight to the heart. His acquisition for melody—catchy, infectious, and timeless—brings classical euphony firmly into the 21st century. It’s a existent joyousness to collaborate with him!” she gushed. 

Brad’s foster parents, Eve and Frank, are liable for nurturing Brad’s emotion of music.

“After seeing that teacher play soft successful precocious school, I went location and asked my foster parents – Eve and Frank – if I could person a piano, which conscionable seemed similar a tube dream,” helium explained. 

But Eve and Frank got him the adjacent champion thing.

“They got maine a keyboard, and I picked it up truly quickly. Then determination was this authorities assistance disposable to kids who’d been fostered, which funded an electrical soft for me,” helium added. 

After walking retired of his GCSE exams, but earning a assistance to the Liverpool School of Performing Arts (LIPA), Brad’s satellite was again turned upside down, aft turning eighteen, erstwhile the decease of his parent led to a spiral successful which helium was efficaciously stateless for a period. Brad and his long-time woman drifted astir Liverpool.

By chance, helium was filmed playing 1 of the nationalist pianos successful Liverpool One buying centre. The video went viral, pricking the ears of the producers of a new, classical music-based endowment amusement connected Channel 4 called The Piano. Somehow, they recovered him and urged him to audition.

“I conscionable applied for the show, expecting thing to travel of it. I went into the Manchester audition wearing a tracksuit… not looking similar a soft subordinate astatine all. But they were blown away, they said. 

“I played 1 of my ain songs. Everyone was advising maine not to, due to the fact that different contestants were playing classical standards, and it was a risk. But Lang Lang and Mika, the judges, they loved it.”

His ain songs bespeak the consciousness of idiosyncratic telling their lived experiences done sounds and the feeling of dependable – a real-life story.

Brad ended up winning the 2nd bid of the deed Channel 4 euphony show.