Father Ray Kelly is currently on Britain’s Got Talent and songs of his from 2015 have now entered the Gospel Album chart as new entries.
The ‘singing priest’ was popular before with over 61 million hits on a YouTube video of him singing Hallelujah at a wedding and two albums to his name.
He spoke to Premier about his chart entry and his beginnings as a vocalist: “Well I’ve always loved to sing, I did a bit of voice training years ago when I worked in Dublin…my family are very musical anyway – it was always something I loved to do.”
Father Ray Kelly regularly sings at church and for weddings and funerals but said: “it always took second step to being a priest; that was number one in my life.”
He added that although he is used to speaking in front of people, he was still nervous about singing in front of Simon Cowell and the other Britain’s Got Talent judges: “I thought about it for a long time before deciding to enter and I kind of thought in the end I’m not going to beat myself up if they criticise me and I don’t get any yes’s…but I said I’d give it a go”
Speaking of the moment he got a standing ovation, he said: “I was gobsmacked by their reaction really. you know, even the four second delay after I finished my last note and there was kind of silence in the auditorium in the palladium…those four seconds seemed like hours”.
“Then Simon…
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