A 110-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Has Become an Overnight Singing Sensation on Tiktok

Amy Hawkins’ rendition of the popular World War One song it’s A Long Way to Tipperary was captured by her great-grandson on her milestone birthday.

Since then Sacha, 14, has clocked up 100,000 views of the video.

Ms Hawkins, of Monmouth, was a performer and at Sacha’s age toured the UK – but her mother banned her from the stage, as it was not “respectable”.

Sacha’s mother Hannah Freeman said the reaction to the video on the social-media site has “restored faith in humanity”.

Ms Hawkins, aged seven at the end of the war, has sung songs from that era ever since.

“She’s like a clock; once you wind her up she won’t stop. She just keeps asking, ‘Would you like another one?’,” said Ms Freeman, her granddaughter.

Ms Hawkins was touring with a dance group when her mother banned her from such a career.

She now lives with three other generations of her family and Ms Freeman said they “feel very lucky” to have been able to spend lockdown together.

“Gran is the centre of it all – we just pivot around her,” she said.

The TikTok app, which only launched in 2016, currently has more than one billion users, who create and share short videos on the platform.

Ms Freeman said she was “almost joking” when she suggested Sacha should feature her in a video, but they “could not believe” the response.

“She is brilliant, so down to earth, and nothing fazes her,” she said.

She added Sacha and his great-grandmother had a “real bond” and he “loves her to bits”.