Freya Ridings

Freya Ridings is the daughter of Cathy Jansen-Ridings and actor and musician Richard Ridings. Despite her father being an actor she did not follow that stage of his path, she followed the musician part, as she sometimes may play a piano in her songs. She is a singer though. She began her music career in 2017, and went unnoticed until she was saved by ITV2 Reality Show Love Island featuring her late 2017 song Lost Without You on the 2018 show, thus seeing the song peak at #9 in the top ten of the UK Charts. It was subsequently featured on Now 102 the first Now CD of 2019. She has released a self-titled album named Freya Ridings which peaked at #3 in the Official Albums Chart Top 100 in 2019, an EP named Waking Up, a second EP entitled You Mean the World to Me which is titled after a single of the same name and also featured another single entitled Wishbone, and a second album entitled Blood Orange which shares the name of its lead single and peaked at #7 in the Official Albums Chart Top 100 in 2023. Her 2019 song Castles also got a brief feature on the 2019 series of ITV2 Reality Show Love Island, not too long after its release, and peaked at #18. Most of her music does not make the chart however though. In March 2019, she released a single entitled 'You Mean the World to Me' which failed to reach the Official Chart Top 40, instead peaking at #57.

She has her own Website and is signed to the music production Label Good Soldier. She also released two promotional singles in 2019. She performed her single Castles on Michael McIntyre's Big Show on Saturday 30th November 2019. She appeared as a guest performer on The New Years special of Top Of The Pops on December 30th 2019. On Saturday 11th January 2020 she appeared as a guest performer on The BRITs Are Coming!. On Thursday 23rd April 2020 she contributed to BBC One's The Big Night In for Children In Need and Comic Relief by performing Shine by Gary Barlow amongst several others.

In January 2023, Ridings released a new single entitled 'Weekends'. She performed her single Weekends on The Graham Norton Show on Friday 24th February 2023. On Friday 3rd March 2023 Weekends entered the Official Chart Top 40 at #31. The following week on Friday 10th March 2023 Weekends departed from the chart. On Saturday 15th April 2023 she appeared as a guest upon an episode of James Martin's Saturday Morning. On Sunday 30th April 2023 she appeared as both a guest and a guest performer upon an episode of Laura Whitmore's Breakfast Show. On Sunday 24th December 2023 she performed ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’ originally by Shakin’ Stevens alongside the Soul Sanctuary Choir on ITV‘s ‘Royal Carols: Together at Christmas’.

## Track Discography

* Blackout (Freya Ridings)

* Maps (Freya Ridings)

* Lost Without You (Freya Ridings)

* Ultraviolet (Freya Ridings)

* Waking Up (Freya Ridings+ MJ Cole)

* You Mean the World to Me (Freya Ridings)

* Castles (Freya Ridings)

* Wishbone (Freya Ridings)

* Unconditional (Freya Ridings)

* Weekends (Freya Ridings)

## Albums & EPs

* Waking Up (EP)

* You Mean the World to Me (EP)

* Freya Ridings (Self titled debut album)

* Blood Orange (second album)

## External Links

* Auf Wiedersehen Pet Wiki
* Red Dwarf Wiki
* Peppa Pig Wiki