After the pair recorded a Christmas tune that was shown during a carol concert, Scottish singer Tom Walker praised the piano skills of Kate Middleton.
Accompanied on the piano by the 39-year-old the Duchess of Cambridge, in a prerecorded segment shown during the concert broadcast, the 30-year old Walker performed a new song, “For Those Who Can’t Be Here,”
Commenting about the title, the singer said he had kept the performance a secret, even from his mother: “She was in floods of tears watching it on the telly.” “It was beautiful.”
Walker had previously performed in front of the duchess at a charity event, and when asked to play at the carol service he offered to perform a song the public hadn’t yet heard, saying:
“So I sent it over to the team and they absolutely loved it, and then a week later they came back and said ‘Um, would it be alright if the duchess played along with you?’″ “And I was like ‘What?’”
After the pair had rehearsed for several weeks, Walker stated:
“She picked it up so well, it’s really not easy to go from not playing with other musicians for like 10 years to jumping straight in with like a whole band you’ve never met and camera crews doing live takes that’s being filmed in Westminster Abbey so I thought it just went so well.” “She’s [a] very talented musician.”
Walker rose to fame after the release of his single “Leave a Light On” in June 2018.
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: BBC News