Cian Ducrot: From busking in Cork to being signed by the same label as Billie Eilish
Cian Ducrot recently released his latest single, Not Usually Like This.
In February, pop star on the rise Cian Ducrot put on a facemask and took the tube from his flat in London to the West End. There, looming over the street, a billboard bearing his likeness advertised the Cork native’s new single, Not Usually Like This. “Considering I was homeless year ago, this is pretty insane,” Ducrot told his 624,000 followers on TikTok as he posed with the image as backdrop.
“Insane” wasn’t an exaggeration. In February 2020, Ducrot, from Passage West, was couch-surfing around Los Angeles hoping to score a record deal. That dream has now come thrillingly to fruition, with Darkroom Records, the label that discovered Billie Eilish, putting its resources behind the tousle-haired 23 year-old. He’s still taking it all in even as Not Usually Like This – think Shawn Mendes covering Joy Division – burns up on social media and streaming platforms, having debuted at number 15 in the Irish charts.
