After the contest, "Space Man" peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, becoming the highest-charting UK Eurovision entry since Gina G's " Ooh Aah. Ryder also won a Marcel Bezençon Press Award, becoming the first UK act to win a Bezençon Award. He won the jury vote and scored the UK its best result since 1998 and its first top three since 2002. At the Eurovision final in Turin, Italy, he finished in second place with 466 points, becoming the highest-scoring UK Eurovision entrant. On, the BBC aired a documentary on BBC iPlayer and YouTube which detailed Ryder's journey to Eurovision. In an interview for Sky News, he spoke about the injury he had sustained in Madrid during his tour after crashing into a metal bar. Ryder toured Europe between March and May 2022 to promote his entry. On 10 March 2022, he was announced as the UK representative for the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with "Space Man".
In the same month, he accepted their offer to represent the country in the contest.
Ryder wrote " Space Man" during the pandemic, and in January 2022, the song was sent to TaP Music and the BBC. In 2021, he released his debut EP, The Sun's Gonna Rise, which has accumulated over a 100 million global streams. He later signed a record contract with Parlophone. By the end of the same year, he was named the most- followed UK artist on the platform. He caught the attention of musicians such as Elton John, Sia, Justin Bieber and Alicia Keys. Ryder rose to prominence through TikTok where, starting with the first lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, he began posting his music covers. 2020–present: TikTok, Eurovision and There's Nothing but Space, Man! He was a wedding singer in the south-east of England until the COVID-19 pandemic. He later opened up a vegan café with his partner in Coggeshall, England, before its closure in 2019. In 2016, Ryder recorded an album with producer Bryan Wilson in Nashville, Tennessee, although it was never released. Īfter his departure from Close Your Eyes, Ryder returned to Britain and spent time working in construction with his father, including helping to build the Wembley Stadium. He parted ways with the band in 2013, and auditioned to become the new lead vocalist for the American Rock band Close Your Eyes, and contributed to their album Line in the Sand and left in 2014. Following The Morning After split he joined as a guitarist and new lead vocalist for the Canadian Rock band Blessed by a Broken Heart and contributed to their album Feel the Power. Ryder made his debut as a singer and guitarist at age 16 when he co-founded the band The Morning After, with whom he released two studio albums.
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Ryder is a big fan of Eurovision and cites Finnish rock band Lordi, as being the inspiration for him learning how to play guitar after the rock band won the Eurovision Song Contest in 2006. Ryder was inspired to pursue a career in music after seeing the Canadian rock band Sum 41 in concert at aged 11. His first job was delivering papers for The Essex Chronicle as a child. Ryder was raised in Chelmsford, Essex and attended St John Payne Catholic School in Chelmsford. As of 2022, one of his sisters was resident in Sydney, Australia. He has two elder sisters, Katie and Natalie, born in Newham, east London three years and one year before him respectively.
Sam Ryder Robinson was born on 25 June 1989, the youngest child of Keith Robinson, a carpenter, and his wife, Geraldine (née Costelloe), a dental assistant from Hackney, London. He was nominated for Best New Artist at the 2023 Brit Awards, becoming the first Eurovision act to be nominated in this category. Ryder's debut album There's Nothing but Space, Man! (2022) debuted at number one on the UK Albums Chart. His entry peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart, and became the highest-charting UK Eurovision entry since Gina G's " Ooh Aah. Ryder has been credited for helping to turn around the UK's Eurovision fortunes and for helping how the British public and press view the contest. His breakthrough came after he represented the United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest 2022 with " Space Man", becoming the highest scoring UK entrant, and finishing first in the jury vote and second overall in the contest. His music has since incorporated various genres such as rock music, pop, alternative rock, and metalcore, with praise given to his vocals and falsetto. He rose to prominence in 2020, after posting music covers on TikTok, during the first UK lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sam Ryder Robinson (born 25 June 1989 ) is a British singer, songwriter, and producer.
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