![]() But it’s the people who caught him when he had no net to fall back on that he surrounds himself with now, paying it forward from his newfound vantage point. Just before his speedy rise to fame, Swims was forced to move in with his father while he worked part-time odd jobs, spending the rest of his spare time focused on music.Īfter making a name for himself on YouTube and TikTok with his covers, Swims signed with Warner Records and released ‘Broke,’ later joined on the track by country star Thomas Rhett. Songwriting is a means of expression for Swims, who has an unfair share of his own past traumas, financial difficulties and more than a few run-ins with heartbreak. “Working on myself and caring about myself, because of that past trauma and issues with relationships where I felt like an unloveable burden, means still coping with that.” I started feeling some imposter syndrome, like if they really knew me and who I was, they would be disgusted,” he shares. “Then I got it, and I had all these people that were validating my feelings and telling me I was great, and I started feeling like they were liars. I would be financial stable and be able to do whatever I want, and nothing else would fucking matter.” “I told myself for so long that if I could do this for a living and have this career, all my problems would go away. “I’m ultimately learning everyday that it’s truly not about me,” he declares. He’s merely aware of the capacity music holds. The double-masked thing implies an alternate reality, but Dimsdale isn’t claiming to be anything other than the friendly, fast-talking, warm person I find myself in conversation with. Swims is an acronym, standing for 'Someone Who Isn’t Me Sometimes'. His moniker, Teddy Swims, carries deeper meaning in the shape of its five-letter surname. It was never that way, I still don’t quite see myself as that.” “We were in bands together coming up, so I never saw myself as a solo artist. We are alone in a quaint backstage room on Swims’ tour stop in Dublin, but he gestures to the thin walls carrying the laughter and music of his bandmates, his team – his “family,” he corrects me. “The whole way this started was with us,” he says. But from the onset, the young prodigy craved so much more, taking up musical theatre and weaving his way through high school bands alongside his closest friends - many of whom he now employs. Dimsdale, better known as Teddy Swims, may be the tattooed celebrity figure in his viral covers, from the 52 million-times viewed ‘You’re Still The One’ Shania Twain-approved clip to the singer’s version of Mario’s ‘Let Me Love You,’ which has reached over 39 million pairs of eyes and ears – but he didn’t just accidentally stumble into the spotlight.įrom the outside, Dimsdale is a steel cut product of the American south: he was raised on football and church, the grandson of a pastor. ![]() When Jaten Dimsdale uploaded a cover of Michael Jackson’s hit ‘Rock With You,’ the now famous video was merely another cobblestone on the Atlanta singer’s lengthy musical journey.
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