Jack Savoretti has said he has a “new found respect” for teachers after homeschooling his two children due to the coronavirus outbreak.
The singer - known for hits Dreamers and Knock Knock - is in isolation at home in Oxfordshire with his wife Jemma Powell and their two children, Connie, eight, and Winter, five.
In an interview with Insider, the singer, 36, said he thought teaching staff were “unsung heroes” among the community.
“I have to say, I have a new respect for teachers across the country,” he said. “Don’t get me wrong the NHS, it is amazing, but I think teachers are being overlooked. The amount of hard work… And now they are at home with their children too and ours are still sending us stuff to do [with the children] and then doing it with their own children. They are the unsung heroes of the last two weeks.”
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The singer said his home life: “Hasn’t changed dramatically. My wife is an artist, a painter. We are accustomed to being unemployed for long stretches of time. We know how to handle it.”
The singer, whose family are originally from Genova in Italy, this week released a single to raise money for SanMartino di Genova Hospital.
It is one of the many Italian hospitals struggling to cope with the number of patients with Covid19 in the country. Over 13,000 are thought to have died in Italy from Coronavirus.
The song is his first Italian track and is called Andrà Tutto Bene - or All Will Be Fine. He co-wrote the song with fans in Italy over Instagram Live during the early stages of lockdown in the country.
Speaking about the process, Savoretti said: “I said [to his fans] ‘Lets’ just write a song, let’s hang out and see what happens.’ It was a true honour to write a song with so many of our Italian friends.
"To be invited into their lives for that moment and to hear of their individual experiences expressed through poetry and song was an incredible experience.”
The single is out now.
