![]() ![]() Ryder made his debut as a singer and guitarist at age 16 when he co-founded the band The Morning After, with whom he released two studio albums. Ryder is a big fan of Eurovision and cites Finnish rock band Lordi, as being the inspiration for him learning how to play guitar after the rock band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. Ryder was inspired to pursue a career in music after seeing the Canadian rock band Sum 41 in concert at aged 11. His first job was delivering papers for The Essex Chronicle as a child. Ryder was raised in Chelmsford, Essex and attended St John Payne Catholic School in Chelmsford. As of 2022, one of his sisters was resident in Sydney, Australia. He has two elder sisters, Katie and Natalie, born in Newham, east London three years and one year before him respectively. ![]() Sam Ryder Robinson was born on 25 June 1989, the youngest child of Keith Robinson, a carpenter, and his wife, Geraldine (née Costelloe), a dental assistant from Hackney, London. He was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2023 Brit Awards, becoming the first Eurovision act to be nominated in this category. Ryder's debut album There's Nothing but Space, Man! (2022) debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. ![]() His entry peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, and became the highest-charting UK Eurovision entry since Gina G's " Ooh Aah. Ryder has been credited for helping to turn around the UK's Eurovision fortunes and for helping how the British public and press view the contest. His breakthrough came after he represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with " Space Man", becoming the highest scoring UK entrant, and finishing first in the jury vote and second overall in the contest. His music has since incorporated various genres such as rock music, pop, alternative rock, and metalcore, with praise given to his vocals and falsetto. He rose to prominence in 2020, after posting music covers on TikTok, during the first UK lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. Larry Craig, the disgraced lawmaker whose 2007 Minneapolis-St.Sam Ryder Robinson (born 25 June 1989 ) is a British singer, songwriter, and producer. But O'Sullivan's scope is as wide as the bathroom stance of Sen. He's told followers about the horrors of the deadly 1940 Armistice Day Blizzard, and given fun facts on the Governor's Mansion. Don't expect meandering, Shelby Foote-like lectures: The on-the-ground clips provide quippy, conversational history nuggets. O'Sullivan doesn't script his videos, and most are posted after just one take. So, as O'Sullivan plots the Minnesota division of his company, he's developing a following at a source for localized historical tidbits that's drumming up excitement on TikTok and Reddit. ![]() It’s hyper-local, and it gives people value." "If I could just strip out every interesting knowledge bomb, I could have hundreds and hundreds of one-minute walking tours on TikTok. “I give three-hour walking tours, but what if I could boil that down to one minute?" he says of his TikTok light-bulb moment. With on TikTok, O'Sullivan attracted over 20,000 followers who gobbled up his one-minute video clips of Aussie history. The one-time marketer discovered an ideal digital marketing tool while in Australia. I’d been fantasizing about it for years." "I’m more and more sure a walking tour would indeed work in the Twin Cities. “I was feeling the call of Minnesota, and I was in the enviable position of deciding where my company would expand to next," he says of the decision to move to St. Depot's business suffered, and a new baby forced O'Sullivan to revaluate his hemispheres all over again. Then COVID-19 happened, followed by Australia's stringent lockdown measures. That's where O'Sullivan launched Depot Adventures, a walking-tour company whose 13 employees would guide 15,000 guests per year around Melbourne and Sydney. While in Europe, the Minnesotan met his future Australian wife, and the couple relocated to Melbourne around 2017. For the next seven years, he'd guide tours by bus and boat with Sail Croatia. In 2009, O'Sullivan traveled through Ireland and Wales, eventually meeting a backpacker in a hostel who told him about history-focused walking tours. “I went overseas and forgot to come home," the 36-year-old history buff says with a chuckle. O'Sullivan managed to find two jobs in advertising and marketing, but got laid off from both. John's University, and, in 2008, graduated into a global recession. The professional walking tour guide grew up in Mankato, attended St. Before John O'Sullivan created his dream job in Minnesota, he established a historical TikTok template on the other end of the Earth. ![]()
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