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EXCLUSIVE

By Michelle Crean

He’s known as Killarney’s ‘Piano Man’ but is fast becoming known as the ‘Lockdown Singer’ after his latest online coronavirus song went viral – clocking up over 46k views this week.

Jack Patrick Healy, who swapped Killarney life for London’s bright lights last year, caught the imagination of the locked down world online this week with his quirky take on the coronavirus.

Jack penned a parody ‘The Ballad of COVID-19’ which amassed over 46k views and has had almost 800 shares.

He wrote the song one day at work and put the rest of it together as he sat at the piano at home in London.

“I thought it was important to use melodies from songs that everyone knows which is why I used Petula Clarke’s ‘Downtown’ for the ‘Lockdown’ section, The Sound of Music ‘My Favourite Things’ for the ‘COVID-19’ section, and the ever famous ‘That’s Amoré’ featured heavily in ‘That’s Corona’,” Jack told the Killarney Advertiser.

“I think, as everyone else does, it is an extremely worrying time and if anything can pull us through as a world, it’s music and laughter. That was my primary goal in writing and filming the song, to bring a much needed smile to peoples’ faces.”

At weekends, he is also doing a live performances with various themes from Disney to Elton John, for approx. 1.5hours on Facebook. The next one is tonight (Friday), at 8pm.

“I take song requests just as I did in piano bars and try to bring a bit of live music into peoples’ homes during this worrying time. People can send in their requests as the show happens and my fiancé Emma helps deliver all the requests from the phone to the piano on Post It notes.”