Who needs tickets to a West End show when there’s a chance you might experience a world-famous live performance right there in your Tube carriage?
Sabrina Bahsoon has had no need for such a grand stage on her journey to musical stardom, having transformed the most boring part of most people’s day into a song-and-dance spectacle that made her an overnight celebrity.
The 23-year-old took TikTok by storm in August with the first in a series of videos showing her dancing and miming along with various viral tracks while on the Tube – a picture of care-free self-confidence in an environment where the majority are horrified by the mere prospect of accidentally bumping someone’s shoulder.
Sweeping her phone around with enough vim and vigour to make Christopher Nolan blush, often adding yet more cinematic drama via wind from any nearby windows, her clips have amassed hundreds of millions of views, earned her a legion of fans, and inspired similar performances on other public transport networks around the world.
‘I just decided to go for it’
“It’s hard to register and process how big this has got,” she says.
“In the moment when it was happening though, I knew I had to…
