When Daniel Buccheri posted a video of the “best man” speech he made at his older brother’s recent wedding, he didn’t expect it to create headlines in Britain just days later.
The Mernda musician’s heartfelt “speech” was in fact a song performed live on a keyboard that he snuck into the venue at the last minute.
The budding singer-songwriter began writing his speech just days before the wedding. But what he delivered both pulled on the heartstrings and had wedding guests in rapturous laughter.
His medley was a parody of six songs – Sam Smith’s Stay With Me, Ignition by R. Kelly, Hey Soul Sister by Train and other hits – that he worked up into the love story of his brother Aiden and new wife Sarah.
“And although you met on the internet, I know this love is true; it’s enough to let the dogs on your expensive rug, and not kick them outside,” he sang.
“Then you were gone with a special girl. I thought you were dead, never saw you again.”
Days later, Buccheri’s YouTube video had been watched hundreds of thousands of times and by the end of last week he had been interviewed on Channel 10 and Channel 7’s Sunrise program and been featured in The Age and even the UK’s Huffington Post.
“It’s a bit crazy, I’m still trying to catch up with what’s going on,” he told Star Weekly.
The 25-year-old coaches at a singing school and compares his style to English sing-songwriter Ed Sheeran.
He said it was tough for musicians to get their big break.
“It’s hard to get your work out there and this could be it for me.”
For more details, go to www.danielbuccheri.com.
