He might have sung at Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi's nuptials, but don't call Joshua Radin a wedding singer.
The US singer/songwriter's hit I'd Rather Be With You was also used on Home and Away when Belle and Aden tied the knot.
The last straw was when an Australian morning television show referred to him as "Ellen's wedding singer".
"I'm not a wedding singer!" Radin told AAP in Sydney.
"That's the only time I've ever played at a wedding - ever.
"I don't even go to weddings, hardly ever."
Radin said he was happy to perform when the talk show host and the Aussie actress got married because he was a fan of both of them. But it was a one-off.
"I played on her TV show, and during the soundcheck she said, `I would love to walk down the aisle to that song,'" he said.
"I thought she was just being kind. And then two days before the wedding I got a call and they asked if I would come in and play like six or seven of my songs for her and her guests.
"Right after they said I do, they went into the living room and there was about 20 people and I played for them. It was really kind of strange, but they were really sweet."
Radin specialises in alt-folk songs that come straight from the heart.
Having started out as a painter and screenwriter, the 35-year-old wrote his first song only about six years ago.
Within weeks it was being played on the hit TV show Scrubs, thanks to actor Zach Braff, whom he had met at university.
Soon he was getting emails from people asking for more songs. So he wrote more.
He has now released two albums - We Were Here in 2006, followed by Simple Times in 2008.
In music, Radin said he found an art form that allowed him to be completely honest, and it felt like a weight lifted off him.
"I've been creative my whole life, and it was the first time I've been truly honest," he explained.
"So after writing my first song I felt like I'd expressed myself in a more honest way than I had in a decade using a paintbrush or a typewriter or whatever.
"They're all just sort of diary entries I guess, put to music."
Radin is in Australia to perform sold-out shows in Sydney and Melbourne.
This is his third trip Down Under, but his first tour.
"It's really cool to be here for work and not just pleasure. Now it's pleasure and work," he said.
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