{"id":155450,"date":"2023-04-14T16:56:02","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T16:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/culture.org\/?p=155450"},"modified":"2023-06-12T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T13:54:57","slug":"ed-sheeran-surprises-subway-singer-mike-yung-in-brooklyn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/culture.org\/art-and-culture\/music\/ed-sheeran-surprises-subway-singer-mike-yung-in-brooklyn\/","title":{"rendered":"Ed Sheeran Surprises Subway Singer Mike Yung in Brooklyn"},"content":{"rendered":"           <!--  <script type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n                jQuery(document).ready(function() {\r\n                    jQuery(\".key-accordion-item .key-menu\").on(\"click\", function() {\r\n                        if (jQuery(this).parent().hasClass(\"active\")) {\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                        } else {\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-content\").slideUp();\r\n                            jQuery(\".key-accordion-item\").removeClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).parent().addClass(\"active\");\r\n                            jQuery(this).next().slideDown();\r\n                        }\r\n                    });\r\n                })\r\n            <\/script> -->\r\n\r\n\r\n            <!-- start html -->\r\n\r\n            <div class=\"news-key-takeaway-wapper\">\r\n                                <span style=\"background-color:#4db2ee;\">Key Takeaways<\/span>\r\n                <ul class=\"news-key-nbox\" style=\"border-color:#4db2ee;background-color:rgba(77, 178, 238, 0.1);\">\r\n                                                        <li>Ed Sheeran surprised local New York City legend Mike Yung while he was performing Sheeran's song \"Eyes Closed\" at a Brooklyn subway station.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Yung first gained fame in 2016 when a video of him singing The Righteous Brothers' \"Unchained Melody\" in a subway station went viral.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Sheeran surprised Yung with tickets to his Brooklyn show at the Kings Theatre, where he performed his new album \"Subtract\" in full for the first time in America.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Sheeran's new album \"Subtract\" delves into the emotional turmoil he experienced due to personal tragedies, and he used songwriting as a form of therapy to make sense of his feelings and share his most honest and vulnerable self.<\/li>\r\n                                                                    <li>Sheeran shared a sneak peek of \"Salt Water,\" a deeply emotional track inspired by some of the darkest times in his life, in the days leading up to the album's release.<\/li>\r\n                                                <\/ul>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n            \n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ed Sheeran recently surprised a local New York City legend, Mike Yung, while he was performing Sheeran&#8217;s song &#8220;Eyes Closed&#8221; at the Church Street subway station in Brooklyn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The heartwarming encounter was captured on video and shared by the Instagram account @subwaycreatures.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>A Viral Talent<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mike Yung, 62, first gained fame in 2016 when a video of him singing The Righteous Brothers&#8217; &#8220;Unchained Melody&#8221; in a subway station went viral.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This led to an appearance on America&#8217;s Got Talent and the release of a studio album in 2018.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yung is also known for his cover of Sheeran&#8217;s &#8220;Thinking Out Loud,&#8221; which has amassed over 5.9 million views on YouTube.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>                        <!-- <div class=\"container-c\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"row justify-content-between\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- <div class=\"col-post-800\"> -->\r\n                        <!-- start html -->\r\n                        <div class=\"blockquote-wapper\">\r\n                            <div>\r\n                                <span class=\"text_quot\">\r\n                                    <p>The album delves into the emotional turmoil Sheeran experienced due to personal tragedies, including the sudden death of his best friend Jamal Edwards, his wife&#8217;s tumor diagnosis during her pregnancy, and a court case where he had to defend his integrity as a songwriter.<\/p>\n                                <\/span>\r\n\r\n                                <div class=\"quot_icon\">\r\n                                    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                                <\/div>\r\n                            <\/div>\r\n\r\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"quot_tick\" src=\"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-content\/themes\/culture\/icons\/i_quot_tri.svg\" type=\"image\/svg+xml\">\r\n                        <\/div>\r\n                        <!-- end html -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                        <!-- <\/div> -->\r\n                                    <\/h2>\n<h2><strong>A Memorable Meeting<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The video shows Yung belting out the chorus of &#8220;Eyes Closed&#8221; when Sheeran, 32, walks up and joins him, leading to a warm embrace between the two.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sheeran then surprises Yung with tickets to his Brooklyn show at the Kings Theatre, where he performed his new album &#8220;Subtract&#8221; in full for the first time in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yung later shared photos of his encounter with Sheeran and the concert tickets on his Instagram account, along with videos from his seat during the performance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The audience remained silent during Sheeran&#8217;s emotional rendition of &#8220;Eyes Closed,&#8221; offering a rare intimate experience with the superstar artist.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Sheeran&#8217;s New Album: Subtract<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ed Sheeran first unveiled his new album &#8220;Subtract&#8221; in late March, followed by a mini-tour with performances in Manchester, London, Glasgow, Dublin, and Paris.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album was announced in a heartfelt Instagram post, where Sheeran revealed that he had been working on it for nearly a decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The album delves into the emotional turmoil Sheeran experienced due to personal tragedies, including the sudden death of his best friend Jamal Edwards, his wife&#8217;s tumor diagnosis during her pregnancy, and a court case where he had to defend his integrity as a songwriter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through the creation of &#8220;Subtract,&#8221; Sheeran used songwriting as a form of therapy to make sense of his feelings and share his most honest and vulnerable self.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the days leading up to the album&#8217;s release, Sheeran shared a sneak peek of &#8220;Salt Water,&#8221; a deeply emotional track inspired by some of the darkest times in his life.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">He further explained in a video that &#8220;Salt Water&#8221; is a dark song that imagines the final moments of jumping into cold salt water, feeling a sense of freedom amidst the darkness.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":155451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[410,398],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art-and-culture","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/culture.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}