Who are you and where are you from?
I grew up in the northeast of England in the 80s. I didn’t fit in and struggled with who I was. Around 8 I found out I could sing, I played the lead in the school’s nativity musical, had that classic choir boy voice, and from that point on, performing and music became my identity. That made the bullying worse, of course. I remember being called gaylord before I even knew what it meant.
Albums like Miss Saigon got me through a lot of it. I’d put the soundtrack on in my bedroom and it transported me straight into my own head, I felt all of it.
At 16 I auditioned for a boyband called Northern Line and got down to the final two. It came down to me and another lad called Andy, he was blonde. I wasn’t. He got in. That audition was the destruction of the dream. It wrecked my confidence, and I went inward, didn’t feel good enough for a long time after that.
So I stepped away completely, built a career in marketing and advertising, and got on with being an adult. But something was always missing. Through my therapy work, I kept finding myself helping clients get unstuck by exploring who they used to be, what gave them joy before life boxed them in. Eventually I decided to take my own medicine, and I realised the boy who loved singing had just been locked away. So in 2023 I made the decision to start singing again. It turned out I had a lot of life experience to write about by then, and that’s how it started.
What is it you do?
First and foremost I’m a psychotherapist, that’s the day job. Outside of that I write about my experiences and turn them into music. At the end of 2025 I finally discovered my style, electropop, and throughout 2026 I’ve built a catalogue of songs I’m really proud of.
I’ve always been drawn to music that packs an emotional punch, and for me that comes through harmonies that strike a chord inside of me. I want to make harmonies that stack like a choir, but it’s all my voice. That’s the sound I’m building towards. I’m intentional about it. It starts from one note and grows into something much bigger. I’m not a sad boy with a guitar, I’m something else entirely.
How long have you been doing it?
In one sense, my whole life, since that nativity musical at 8. But properly, as a songwriter with something of my own to say, only since 2023. It took until the end of 2025 to actually find the sound, electropop, and once I had that, everything clicked and the catalogue started coming together fast.
I love Kelly Clarkson, Celine Dion, Loreen, The Weeknd, Lara Fabian, Josh Groban, Cher, Delta Goodrem, Crowded House, Erasure, Steps, S Club 7, musical theatre. They heavily influence parts of what I make, but everything I create is mine.
What inspires you?
The emotional pain and difficult moments in my life are what I write about. My therapist brain shapes the more optimistic side of it too, there’s always an arc. I start with the pain, the actual event, then reflect on how it changed me and what I learned. I rarely just sit in the sadness, that’s part of it, but it’s not the whole song.
Some songs, like Love Unspoken, Scrolling and Ghost, don’t end happily. They’re tracking a moment in time, and it was what it was. Others, like Times, Burn and Love Arsonist, do resolve in a more aware place, because those are tracking an old version of me against who I am now.
Tell us about your work/music.
Right now the work is the EP, LOVE unspoken. Six tracks, and together they tell a ten year story. LOVE ARSONIST tracks the toxic relationship itself, the start of it all. GHOST 2.0 is what came after, the loss of confidence and identity, feeling half the person I was. SCROLLING is the endless search for something external to fill that back up, and it didn’t work. BURN is the descent that followed, substance misuse, mental health decline, and the self-preservation that ultimately saved me. TIMES is the turning point, when I actually became a therapist, and with it the ability to look at everything I’d been through from a place of hope and purpose. And LOVE UNSPOKEN is where I land now, recovered, but still lonely, still hoping to find that person. It’s not six unrelated songs, it’s one story.
What makes your sound your own?
I don’t really think in terms of other artists, so it’s hard for me to say what makes me different from them. What I can tell you is what I do. I build layered self-harmonies, one voice becoming a full choir, but that’s never there to show off, it’s there to make you feel something, to almost get hit by it. My voice is dramatic, I’ve stopped trying to soften it. And because I’m a therapist, I don’t just write from feeling, I process what I’ve written the way I would with a client, so there’s always an arc to it. Even the adlibs are doing emotional work, not decoration, more like duetting with myself. Some songs resolve and some don’t, and that’s deliberate, it depends whether that moment in my life has actually been made sense of yet or not. That’s the sound. Whether it’s different to anyone else is for the listener to decide.
What have you got coming up in the future?
Love Arsonist is out 11 September, then the full EP, LOVE unspoken, lands 16 October. After that it’s about properly promoting what I’ve created and finding my core audience, rather than just rushing on to the next thing. I put out six songs in a year and it nearly broke me, financially and otherwise. 2027 is three or four releases, done properly, not a waterfall.
Where can people find out more about you?
andrewflynnmusic.co.uk, or search Andrew Flynn on Spotify and all the usual platforms.