Ducrot worked with American singer-songwriter SZA on the song Saturn, which was nominated in the Best R&B Song category for the 67th Grammy awards.
The 27-year-old artist, who hails from Passage West in Cork, was asked what it has been like after his popularity exploded in the last few months.
“It’s funny to think of it as a couple of months, when it’s been a couple of years really, when I look back at my camera roll,” he said.
Ducrot, who played at Dublin Castle to ring in the New Year, described his rise in the industry as “fantastic” adding that it is “what every artist dreams of”.
“It’s been life changing. When things you have worked for your whole life sort of come to fruition, it feels like you are living in a dream.
“It’s an amazing thing, I feel very lucky,” he said.
LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND – JUNE 01: Cian Ducrot performs during Hits Radio Live: Liverpool 2024 at M&S Bank Arena on June 01, 2024 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
The All for You singer, whos hit single gained him popularity in 2022 through TikTok, while reaching number two in the Irish singles chart, played to a sold-out Musgrave Park in his home county last June.
“I was busking on these streets for most of my teenage years and to now play a sold out stadium in my home town is something that will take a while for me to understand but I am so so grateful,” he wrote on Instagram after.
Ducrot’s mother, Sabine, who is French, was a pianist and flautist, which led to him joining musical and drama clubs in is youth.
He won a scholarship to a special music school in the UK and later joined the Royal Academy of Music in London, studying classical flute.
He is set to release a new single this Friday, entitled Who’s Making You Feel It? which he said he played to Ed Sheeran a few months ago over a “delicious curry”.
“He demanded I put it out next so here we are,” he said ahead of its January 17 release online and on streaming platforms.
He also hinted that he is entering a new phase, off the back of his success of All for You, and will always carry that phase around with him, which he said is “a huge phase of my journey”.
It is understood that he is currently working on a second studio album.
“It is important to continue to move on, and to continue to build into the next chapter, which is where I am at now. I’m very excited,” he added.
