Lewis Capaldi may be one of the world’s most popular singer-songwriters right now, but he has some ingenious ways to hide his involvement in some ventures in case they fail.
The musician, 26, is currently preparing to release his second album, Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, but he has also been writing songs for other musicians.
However, Lewis has now acknowledged that he sometimes avoids using his true name on credits, instead opting for some humorous pseudonyms.
‘I’ve been writing songs for other people and most of them have been tragic failures,’ Lewis shared while appearing on The Graham Norton Show on Friday.
Explaining his decision more, he added: ‘I don’t put my name on them in case they’re absolute f***ing duds.’
‘Yes so I use pseudonyms,’ he said, before turning to the audience and telling them they were fake names.
‘That is something I only learnt this year,’ he added.

Giving away his secrets, Lewis went on to say that he uses two pseudonyms, explaining just how he came up with both.
‘In Scotland, if you go for a s***e, you go for a jobby, so one of them I use is Anita Jobby and the other one is Sooka Phatwan.’ he said.
‘I think when you look at me you think Sooka Phatwan.’
Revealing that he’d managed to get them onto credits a song by Norwegian DJ Kygo and Australian singer Dean Lewis, Lewis added that it had ‘actually done right well’ and he looked like he needed to backtrack on his decision to call it a dud.
It turns out the credit in question is actually on a collaboration between the two artists on the song Never Really Loved Me, which was released as part of Kygo’s 2022 album Thrill of the Chase.

Surprisingly, one of the writing credits is given to Anita Jobby.
However, as Lewis stated on the show, he has yet to have any success with his other rame, but he will continue to try.
‘I’m holding out hope,’ he said.
Fans couldn’t get enough of his admission, with some commenting on a clip of the show on Instagram that he was ‘priceless’.
‘Thank goodness Lewis Capaldi exists in this world,’ they wrote.
‘Lewis is absolutely, unapologetically himself! Doesn’t get much better or funnier than that,’ another said.

Several others said there was a back-up career ready and waiting if songwriting didn’t work out.

Fans of the Scotsman will recognise this as nothing new for him, since the prankster gave out his phone number to 5.7 million followers on social media last year to promote a song.
Many individuals attempted to contact Lewis, but it was not his personal phone number.
Instead it ended up being a prerecorded message from him, urging for fans to buy his new single and ‘send me your money’.
The Graham Norton is streaming on BBC iPlayer.