Singing dads go viral - 20th December 2023

Five Swedish dads have found fame, thanks to their singing abilities and TikTok. Their a cappella singing has gone viral and they now have over 20 million followers on the social media platform. It all began at Peter Widmark's bachelor party in a slightly unusual place!

Peter Widmark: "Well, this story all started at my bachelor party where we hang out and we were singing as we usually do when we hang out with each other… yeah in a bathtub."

Peter's brother filmed them singing and put the video on TikTok. The next morning they had 40,000 followers and within a week they had topped one million - and then continued rocketing upwards. The friends, all in their 30s, each have two children, and as parental leave is the norm in Sweden, they all get to hang out together.

Peter Widmark: "When we hang out, the kids can hang out with each other. And as many people see in the videos, the, the, we have a- it's a soothing thing when we are singing."

With an audience hungry to see them live, they took to the stage with 'Dad Harmony' and are now on tour around Sweden - albeit without their kids. However, it's no rock and roll lifestyle as they return home during the week to work and hang out with their families.

Sebastian Åkesson, Peter Widmark and Michael Aberg: "No televisions flying from the hotel rooms! We have a quite boring tour life. Shovelling snow! It came two metres of snow this week, so I think that's all the things that we have done during the evenings."

Fans like Emma Solinen find Dad Harmony's simplicity relatable and appreciate their humility.

Emma Solinen: "We Swedes like it in that way! I mean we are humble and like normal people, and we like normal people."

Now with a worldwide fanbase, Dad Harmony have their sights set on a world tour, but they may just need to squeeze it into the school holidays.

Sebastian Åkesson: "Hopefully we'll get to some countries in Europe, maybe the States and somewhere in Asia, but time will tell. We don't know at the moment."