She is the poster child of a new type of TikTok star, but Katie Gregson-MacLeod is determined to make a name for herself beyond social media.
and Wales combined, and it’s also the number of people who viewed a 60-second clip of Inverness musician Katie Gregson- MacLeod singing her breakout hit ‘Complex’ on TikTok.
“TikTok has been instrumental to my progress,” she explains, “and I’ll always be eternally grateful for the audience it’s given me. But I also want to give context that I’ve been writing music for years, so although it an overnight thing, there was a lot of preparation for that moment.” She decided to move to Edinburgh to study history at university, playing at open mic events and folk clubs while writing music in her spare time. In 2021 she decided to download TikTok, a video sharing app that’s hugely popular with younger generations, and began sharing clips of some of her original songs.
“I woke up the next day to see the comments and the shares were flooding in. I started to get seen by people at the top of their game musically and interest from record labels. It feels like a fever dream when you are in it. I posted it on the Thursday night, and by that weekend my whole life was different.”
She is currently working on her debut album, with homecoming gigs in Edinburgh and Glasgow scheduled for the end of November. But Katie says her ambition is “huge”, with plans to build on the connection she has formed with her fans.
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