Singer-songwriter Sam Fender has won the Brits Critics’ Choice award for 2019.
Winning the accolade sees the Newcastle-born 24-year-old follows in the footsteps Florence And The Machine, Sam Smith and Adele.
The ‘Dead Boys’ singer won out over Mahalia and Lewis Capaldi.
In an interview with Sky News, Fender explained: “We were in a taxi driving back to my manager’s house. I was driving past my old school, which was very strange, and the label rang, and he put them on loudspeaker and then he was just like, you’ve got it mate, you’ve got it. I just started screaming. I was punching all the seats in the taxi going completely mad.”
