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1 Jul 2022, 13:03
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Tom Walker took home the award for Best Male at the Nordoff Robbins O2 Silver Clef Awards today (1 July).
The annual music event is run by Nordoff Robbins, the UK’s largest music therapy charity, and the awards recognise and celebrate the powerful impact of music on all members of society.
Edith Bowman hosted the event for the fourth year running, with Peter Andre covering the star-studded blue carpet celebrity arrivals and this year, Walker was able to bag the prize for Best Male.
Speaking to virginradio.co.uk about winning the award, he said: “I'm super happy to support anything they're doing because using music as therapy, it's something I've done my whole life and the fact that it's there helping so many people, it’s just great.
“It’s such a brilliant charity.”
He added: “Everybody can understand music, you know, everybody can get on board with it. Everybody can feel emotion while they're hearing the song, whether it's in their language or not. There's something for everybody in music. I think that's why it's so important.
In total, the Silver Clef Awards raised £750,000 for Nordoff Robbins, meaning more money to help those most vulnerable with music therapy. During the star-studded auction, George Michael's Bechstein piano sold for £200,000.
For Tom, music holds a lot of power, and he revealed he had his own special song for when he needs some mindfulness too.
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When asked if he had a track he goes back to whenever he needs some therapy, Tom responded: “Yeah, Tom Misch has got a track called The Journey on his EP Beat Tape 2, and it doesn't have any lyrics on it. But every time I'm stressed, if I’ve got like a four-hour radio interview after like two hours sleep and I'm panicking, I put that tune on, get in the shower, and just everything's gonna be fine.”
This comes after Walker recently released a politically charged single called 10, about the government’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Walker revealed he wrote the song following the no-confidence vote and believed the UK “deserves better than that.”
He explained: “I wrote a song recently called number 10, which I feel is quite important because the people in that particular building in 10 Downing Street are taking advantage of people right now, and I don't think that's fair.
“I think that song has resonated so much with people despite the fact that it can't get played on radio and can't get played on television. It got to top five in the iTunes chart a couple of weeks ago because people are all resonating with it.”
He added: “We're donating money from the proceeds of that song to the Trussell Trust, which is a food bank to raise money for the cost of living crisis situation at the moment.”
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