Chart-topping singer/songwriter Alex Warren has revealed his fans often rock up to his gigs with urns and bags full of ashes belonging to lost loved ones and ask him to sign them
The Ordinary hitmaker says that since he has spoken openly about the death of both his parents, his followers have started turning up to his shows carrying urns which he scribbles on.
Alex confessed: “I have signed more zip locked bags of parents’ ashes than I have signed arms, and urns I’ve signed a lot of urns!”
But he’s more than happy to oblige and encourages fans to share their stories about grief. Alex himself has a quite a unique outlook on loss and even shared a video of himself receiving his mum’s ashes in the post in a clear plastic bag.
He continued: “When it comes down to loss and also grief a lot of people choose not to talk about it and they choose to bottle it up.
“But one thing I say, and I forgot where I heard it but now I say it all the time is that people die twice, they die when they die and they die when you stop talking about them.
“Whether it’s jokes, whether it’s loving memoirs, whether it’s songs, keeping someone alive is important.
“At the end of the day when people stop talking about things, where do they go? To me that’s what the music has been but also it’s been a weirdly healing aspect of a lot of my shows, where people will come and tell me stories about their parents.”
Alex lost his dad to cancer when he was just 9-years-old and the popstar says his one wish is to have his own family soon.
The record-breaking star, who married his long-term partner Kouvr Annon last year, gushed: “The one thing I hope when I am gone is, I don’t care if they think I am a good musician, I don’t care if they say I can sing, I care about if someone says I was a good person and was a good father.”
It was loosing his dad that inspired him to get into music, he revealed: “I started picking up the piano and guitar and playing chords, trying to deal with that grief.”
Alex will visit the UK next April on his Little Orphan arena tour but insists he really just is an Ordinary guy: “I don’t look like a pop star. I think I look like, literally, the most average white dude you could ever think of.”
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