A FORMER professional rugby player has started a new career as a musician after suffering a horror injury which left him bedridden.
Plato Moysiadis, who goes by the artist name pleytoh, is an Edinburgh-based Greek singer who was once an aspiring rugby star.
He became the first Greek player to win a professional rugby contract away from his homeland.
His career highlights include representing Greece in the Rio Olympic qualifier and a short stint at Scotland side Heriot’s.
It was during this spell where he was forced to make a dramatic career change after suffering a horror accident.
But intent on not telling that get in his way of making a name for himself, he made a decision which would alter his life – he started to play guitar.
Speaking to The Scotsman, he said: “I broke my tibia and fibula and ended up bedridden for months, and unable to ever play again due to surgery complications.
“At this time I picked up my guitar, which I had bought with my first wage as a 15-year-old and began to play.”
The upcoming artist knows he is entering a competitive industry which is just as demanding as the world of professional sport.
However he is more than up for the challenge.
He said: “I’m an outsider in the music world, but I hope to defy the odds and achieve my goal. I want to inspire people through music, by creating a sound that is uniquely my own, and proving that not much is needed to create art that people will love, as long as you have something genuine to say and an authentic way to say it.”
He’s his debut song, which was written and recorded entirely in Edinburgh, while also filming a music video.
Discussing the track titled Quicksand, which he described as a “Frankenstein project, he said: “This is my debut single, but there is plenty more to come.
“It’s wrapped in a package that can still exist alongside mainstream music.”
