Piano viewers were left in tears after Brad Kella was declared the winner during Sunday’s heartbreaking final at Manchester’s Aviva Studios.
The 22-year-old amateur pianist from Liverpool made it to the final alongside other hopefuls including fan favorite Duncan, 80, who suffers from dementia.
In the Channel 4 show, several musicians play the piano at train stations across the UK in a bid to impress passers-by with their music.
Brad took the stage to perform a song he had written in honor of his beloved adoptive parents Ev and Frank, who wiped away tears as they watched from the audience.
After impressing judges Mika and Lang Lang, as well as host Claudia Winkleman, and being declared the winner, he gave an impassioned speech.
Piano viewers cried after Brad Kella, 22, was declared the winner during Sunday’s heartbreaking finale.
Brad took the stage to perform a song he had written in honor of his beloved adoptive parents, who wiped away tears as they watched from the audience.
He said: “I just want to show that us kids who care can still do things, we just need to be around the right people.” Thank you very much for appreciating my music.’
Viewers were devastated and began to write X: “I saw the piano in the final and probably cried throughout the show.”
‘Well done, brother! Totally deserved, I have cried ugly tears from start to finish.
“Well done, Brad at the piano may have cried a few tears.”
While others said: ‘Wow #ThePiano!! They were all brilliant – I was brought to tears listening to the music and stories of these talented musicians! Brad was inspiring, what a wonderful man to write such a wonderful piece for his adoptive parents (indicating tears again!).’
Brad previously opened up about his childhood and credited his adoptive parents for changing his life.
Saying: ‘I was put in foster care when I was seven with my twin brother. He was so confused. I remember hanging from the railing outside my foster parents’ (house) and I didn’t want to go in.’
‘What they did for me and my brother was absolutely everything. They made sure we were up to start school, the routine, getting up early, going to bed early. They gave me absolutely everything and more.’
The Liverpool amateur pianist made it to the final alongside other hopefuls including fan favorite Duncan, 80, who suffers from dementia.
In the Channel 4 show, a variety of musicians play piano at train stations across the UK in a bid to impress passers-by with their music (Duncan pictured with his wife).
After impressing judges Mika and Lang Lang, as well as host Claudia Winkleman, and being declared the winner, he gave an impassioned speech.
He said: “I just want to show that us kids who care can still do things, we just need to be around the right people.” Thank you very much for appreciating my music’
Brad previously opened up about his childhood and credited his adoptive parents for changing his life.
Explaining how his parents helped him develop his love for music, he said: “I never started playing the piano until I was 14. I can’t read music, I’ve never had a lesson in my life. But when I listen to music, there’s something about it. I feel different from normal people.
Excited fans took to social media.
Explaining how his parents helped him develop his love for music, he said: “I never started playing the piano until I was 14.
‘I can’t read music, I’ve never had a lesson in my life. But when I listen to music, there’s something about it. I feel different from normal people.
Before adding: ‘Ev invested some money to get a piano. From that moment on, my life changed.”
Last year they were captivated by the victorious performance in the show’s debut of Lucy Illingworth, a then 13-year-old blind and autistic girl, who won the show.
The teenager from Halifax, West Yorkshire, reduced viewers to tears with a stunning recital of Debussy’s Arabesque, prompting judges Lang Land and Mika to call her a “genius”.
A year later, the moment was nominated for a BAFTA, in a category with scenes from Doctor Who, Succession and Happy Valley.
Plus, since her incredible performance on the Channel 4 talent show, Lucy performed to a packed Royal Albert Hall and left the King and Queen speechless at King Charles III’s coronation concert.
So where is Lucy now, as The Piano returns to find another hidden musical star?
Viewers of Channel 4’s The Piano were captivated by the show’s victorious debut performance of 13-year-old blind and autistic girl Lucy in the show’s 2023 debut.
He then gave the ‘best performance’ at the show’s final concert at the Royal Festival Hall.
In the months after the show aired, Lucy left the newly crowned King and Queen speechless during a performance at their Coronation concert (pictured).
On her way to The Piano final, Lucy wowed passers-by at Leeds train station with her performance of Chopin’s Nocturne in B flat minor, with the video being viewed more than five million times online.
The pianist, who was born with cancerous tumors in her eyes and is largely nonverbal, was nominated by her mother Candice for the competition because she wanted to show others how “amazing” she was and raise awareness about her condition.
Her performance has earned her and the show the Best Moment category at the BAFTA Television Awards, which will take place on May 12.
Other nominees in the category include: David Beckham mocking Victoria about her ‘working class’ upbringing in his Netflix documentary, Ncuti Gatwa being revealed as the 15th Doctor in Doctor Who, Catherine Cawood and Tommy Lee Royce’s final showdown in BBC One’s Happy Valley, Bill and Frank’s story in the Sky Atlantic series The Last Of Us and the death of Logan Roy in Succession on the same channel.
Since recording the show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, Lucy has learned more and more pieces by artists such as Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Stevie Wonder.
Less than two months after her victory was broadcast, Lucy wowed the newly crowned King and Queen, as well as tens of thousands of other spectators, at Charles’ Coronation concert in Windsor.
He was on the bill alongside world-renowned artists such as Lionel Richie and Nicole Scherzinger.
