This footage was filmed and produced 1 January 2023.

A 22-year-old pianist whose genre-bending blend of classical and Irish traditional influences has topped charts across the world says his life was “turned upside down” by the success.

Jamie Duffy, from Glaslough in Co Monaghan, was studying politics at the University in Belfast when he released his first single Solas.

Solas was the most successful debut song on streaming from an Irish artist since Take Me To Church by Hozier, with more than 60 million plays on Spotify.

He now has nearly one million monthly listeners on Spotify alone, and has been number one in the classical charts in the Netherlands and Kazakhstan.

When he was 17 years old, Duffy began working as a pianist at Castle Leslie, carrying on a musical tradition, as his grandmother was a DJ at Castle Leslie in one of rural Ireland’s first ever nightclubs in the late 1960s.