Kelty's Grady Kinnell chosen to support Marti Pellow

Grady Kinnell, 21, took part in an STV Radio competition alongside four other unsigned acts.

He played his original song Talk It Out on 'Ewen and Cat at Breakfast', before finding out on Sunday that he was one of the three successful artists to be chosen by the public.

Grady said he wasn’t so confident of making it through, but listeners took to his sound.

He explained: “The comments that were coming in at the time were like ‘I stopped walking the dog to listen to this, and I’m humming along to the lyrics.’

“I was actually shook, I can’t put it into words how I felt over it because all I’ve ever wanted is to be heard.

“I did have the lowest followers on any platforms of any of the acts. I think it was up to me constantly sharing it as much as I could have and posting about it every day.

“I’m still getting Instagram followers from it, which I’m over the moon about.”

Grady started performing around the age of 14 when he attended a youth club in Kinross that ended up needing a singer at its band camp.

He said: “I’ve been addicted to singing and annoying people ever since!

“I’ve always wanted to do this as a career, even at the start I was like ‘I’m enjoying this so much that I don’t want it to stop.’

“Ideally, I’d love to be doing this for the rest of my life, and I’ve never thought ‘if it gets boring, I’ll pack it in and do it as a hobby.’

“I’ll be fighting to the end to do this. I want to be doing stuff like Lewis Capaldi and Sam Fender, touring the world.”

He will take to the stage before Marti’s show at Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Bandstand on Thursday, August 6.

Grady said: “I went to see him in Pitlochry a couple of weeks ago, with my mum and dad.

“My dad isn’t an emotional guy and when I got out of the studio and into the car after finding out I got the chance, he looked like he was going to cry.”

The up-and-comer will play in Glasgow again one night after his opening spot at the city’s Nice N Sleazy.