LONDON (AP) \u2014 Scottish singer Tom Walker praised the piano skills of the Duchess of Cambridge after the pair recorded a Christmas tune that was shown during a\u2026<\/b>
\nLONDON (AP) \u2014 Scottish singer Tom Walker praised the piano skills of the Duchess of Cambridge after the pair recorded a Christmas tune that was shown during a carol concert. Walker,30, performed a new song, \u201cFor Those Who Can\u2019t Be Here,\u201d accompanied by the 39-year-old Kate playing the piano, in a prerecorded segment shown during the concert broadcast on ITV on Friday. Walker said he had kept the performance a secret \u2014 even from his mother. \u201cShe was in floods of tears watching it on the telly,\u2019\u2019 he told the BBC. \u201cIt was beautiful.\u201d Walker had performed at a charity event in front of the duchess, and when asked to play at the carol service he offered to perform a song the public hadn\u2019t yet heard. \u201cSo I sent it over to the team and they absolutely loved it, and then a week later they came back and said \u2018Um, would it be alright if the duchess played along with you?\u2019\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd I was like \u2018What?’\u201d The pair rehearsed for a few weeks. \u201cShe picked it up so well, it\u2019s really not easy to go from not playing with other musicians for like 10 years to jumping straight in with like a whole band you\u2019ve never met and camera crews doing live takes that\u2019s being filmed in Westminster Abbey so I thought it just went so well,\u201d he said. \u201cShe\u2019s (a) very talented musician.\u201d Kate and Prince William spearheaded the program, \u201cRoyal Carols: Together At Christmas.\u201d The Westminster Abbey event was attended by those who had spent time with Kate and William during recent engagements. Walker rose to fame after the release of his single \u201cLeave a Light On,\u201d in June 2018. Copyright \u00a9 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, written or redistributed.<\/p>\n