When Chan, a home­less man, in San Fer­nan­do saw a group of peo­ple record­ing him singing ear­li­er this week, lit­tle did he know they would post the video on so­cial me­dia caus­ing it to be shared over 1,000 times.

The video al­so gen­er­at­ed a huge in­ter­est in Chan.

“Ah walk­ing, re­al peo­ple telling me they see me on Tik­Tok and YouTube singing,” he said.

To him, it was just an­oth­er day of him do­ing what he loves to do to show ap­pre­ci­a­tion to the peo­ple who brought him his next meal.

“I like to en­ter­tain,” he said.

In the 57 sec­ond long video, Chan is seen singing to ‘Every­thing I Do’ by Bryan Adams.

He told Guardian Me­dia’s Ivan Toolsie on Har­ris Prom­e­nade yes­ter­day that it’s his favourite song.

“It’s a touch­ing song, a ro­man­tic song. It’s a song I like, I think this was a song from a movie, it bring (sic) back mem­o­ries,” he said.

Chan said be­fore COVID-19 he used to sing Karaoke every night at sev­er­al bars in Cen­tral and South Trinidad such as Joe’s Bar in Mara­bel­la and In­fin­i­ty Sports Bar in San Fer­nan­do.

And while those es­tab­lish­ments re­main closed, Chan keeps his pas­sion alive.

The home­less man said he has grown ac­cus­tomed to crowds chair­ing him on when he sings, but the most re­cent feed­back reignit­ed an old flame and re­mind­ed him of his life-long dream of be­com­ing a singer.

“Cer­tain time you does go through lil tri­als and tribu­la­tions...but my next goal I want to join a band, I want singing to be my next pro­fes­sion,” he said sound­ing very hope­ful.

The video on Face­book was viewed more than 60,000 times and had sev­er­al com­ments sup­port­ing Chan’s tal­ent.

One per­son said see­ing the video made their day while an­oth­er ex­pressed that this was just what the coun­try needs dur­ing this time.