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Rolling Stone Menu Sea Shanties Blew Up On TikTok. Now They’re Getting Record Deals Nathan Evans, who kickstarted the shanty trend on TikTok with his version of “Wellerman,” has signed a deal with Universal Music Group’s Polydor Records By George W. Hales/Fox Photos/Getty Images Sea shanties are mainstream now. Just a few weeks after TikTok creator Nathan Evans helped kickstart the impeccably random sea shanty trend with his viral rendition of New Zealand standard “Wellerman” — in which many other TikTokers layered their own vocals one after another over his in...

How a Scottish postie's simple sea shanty struck a global chord Robyn Vinter © Photograph: ITV/Rex/Shutterstock 26-year-old Nathan Evans has become an international star It is no exaggeration to say that sea shanties have changed Nathan Evans’s life. The 26-year-old postman from Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, has become a phenomenon online thanks to the driving, rhythmic a cappella music. The sea shanty genre has unexpectedly broken into the mainstream, having become something of a global online obsession over recent weeks, mostly driven by the duet feature on the video-shar...