Nandi Bushell

About

Nandi Bushell is an English nine-year old who has gotten popular for videos of her performing drum covers to popular rock and roll songs. She began going viral in November of 2019 after a video of her playing along to “In Bloom” by Nirvana gained popularity across social media.

History

Bushell began posting videos of her drumming to YouTube on January 28th, 2017 at the age of 6. Her first video shows her playing along with her father (shown below, left). On July 28th, 2017, she posted her first video to gain over 1,000 views, a cover of Metallica’s Mr. Sandman (shown below, right).

Online Presence

She began gaining a significant following in late 2018 and early 2019 as some of her drum covers gained media attention. On September 14th, 2018, the Ipwich Star^[1] covered her cover of “Bohemian Rhapsody,” which itself was an audition for British department store John Lewis (shown below, left). On January 14th, 2019, RadioX^[2] covered her cover of “Everlong” by the Foo Fighters.^[2]

In June of 2019, she played with Lenny Kravitz in London (shown below, top). She starred in an advertisement for Argos during the 2019 holiday season (shown below, bottom).

"In Bloom" Cover

On November 11th, 2019, Bushell posted a video of her drumming along to "In Bloom" by Nirvana. Her tweet of the video gained over 4,400 retweets and 19,000 likes (shown below, top). The video itself gained over 2.2 million views thanks to reposts of the video by people such as @Vanessaid,^[3] who tweeted, "Is this my actual daughter," gaining over 11,000 retweets and 59,000 likes.

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