![]() I met him backstage and he’s very down to earth. It was really cool to share the stage with him in the 3Arena. I love his style of songwriting and the storytelling in his songs. Lewis Capaldi is someone I really look up to. How did you react to opening for Lewis Capaldi in the 3Arena? You caught the attention of one of the world’s biggest popstars of the moment. But, it was such an amazing night and now I’m like ‘when can we play there again’. That for me is the greatest thing ever, I almost cried on the stage. The best feeling in the world is having people in an audience sing back lyrics that you’ve written and that mean the world to you. Growing up, I went to see a lot of my favourite acts there, so to step on the stage and do my own sold out, headline was a really big moment in my career and something I always dreamed of. You played the Olympia this year, what was that like? It’s the ones you video in 30 seconds that end up doing great! I love it, it’s such a cool platform. Now there’s a certain amount of pressure to make a video go viral but what I’ve realised is if you’re being authentic and just having fun you’re definitely more likely to get people to see them. I definitely was posting videos wanting to keep myself occupied and have something to do during the day in lockdown but it was just for fun, I didn’t really expect anything. No, I think I joined TikTok the same time everybody else did and at the time I didn’t really know the ins and outs of it or what it could do. When you started sharing videos on TikTok did you hope or expect things to take off the way they did? It’s been a whirlwind but I wouldn’t change a single thing. I can’t believe it is two and a half years since I released Older, it’s literally gone in the blink of an eye but yet so much has happened in that time as well and I look back and I’m like ‘God, I’m almost like a different person now’. It’s just made my love for it grow even more. I think in the past year and a half it has been amazing to really get out there perform gigs, play festivals and meet people in person. I’d done some Zoom interviews and that kind of thing, but I hadn’t really met anyone. I had released a whole EP and I never really left my house. I started releasing music properly at the end of 2020 but, it was still during lockdown so the first whole year of releasing music. Since 2020, you’ve had quite a meteoric rise, how does that feel?Īmazing. Three or four year old little Lea saw herself on the stage and that’s kind of where it started from. I think the more I do it the more passionate I get about it and the more I want to keep doing it and keep getting better. I feel so lucky to be doing something that makes me so happy every single day. Then when I got into my teenage years, I realised it was something I wanted to take more seriously. Growing up it was really an outlet for me to do that. Since I was four or five, music was always my way to express myself. ![]() Hey Lea, how are you? So what first got you interested in music? We got the chance to chat to Lea all about writing the song, what’s next for her and of course what her favourite Cadbury’s chocolate is. Recently, Lea was given the opportunity to write a song to incorporate all the excitement around the Irish women’s football team headed over to Australia to play in the World Cup for the first time. Kildare singer-songwriter, Lea Heart, started posting to TikTok at the same time as everybody else but instead of being at home, she’s now playing sold out headline shows at the 3Olympia and opening for Lewis Capaldi at the 3Arena. One Irish singer took to the platform to create videos out of boredom and it completely changed her life. It was clear TikTok would change the trajectory for many, as the social media platform gained popularity week in and week out. Whether you were watching others or contributing to the video content, it didn’t matter. When lockdown hit in 2020, TikTok became the entertainment choice for over 315 million people worldwide. ![]()
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