{"id":493738,"date":"2026-02-27T14:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493738\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T14:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:02:09","slug":"ryan-leonard-talks-about-his-great-performance-doing-karaoke-of-bruno-mars-uptown-funk-at-the-capitals-rookie-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493738\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryan Leonard talks about his \u2018great performance\u2019 doing karaoke of Bruno Mars\u2019 \u2018Uptown Funk\u2019 at the Capitals\u2019 Rookie Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ryan Leonard<\/a> was bestowed quite an honor by his Washington Capitals teammates. Inside the locker room after the team\u2019s 3-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers, Caps defenseman Rasmus Sandin<\/a> revealed that the team had changed their goal song to Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cUptown Funk\u201d<\/a> in celebration of Leonard\u2019s musical talents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe switched it after a good little rookie party that we had,\u201d Sandin said<\/a>. \u201cShout out to Ryan Leonard<\/a>. He had a great performance for us. So, it\u2019s after that we switched it up.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was fantastic,\u201d he added. \u201c[Y]ou guys should ask him next time if he can perform for you guys.\u201d<\/p>\n

Thursday, RMNB\u2019s Katie Adler took Sandin\u2019s advice. While Leonard didn\u2019t do any singing, he did share some backstory.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the conversation went.<\/p>\n

Q. We were told last night that we should ask you about a performance of \u201cUptown Funk.\u201d How\u2019d that come about?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard<\/a>: Me and Sourdy (Justin Sourdif<\/a>) had to sing a karaoke song, and that was what I chose, and then it kind of stuck.<\/p>\n

Q. Why\u2019d you choose that one?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard<\/a>: I almost sang it in the talent show when I was like, whenever the song came out, whenever that was. Elementary school. And then, I don\u2019t know, it just kind of came to my head. There was something I had all the words to and had a good jingle to it.<\/p>\n

[Editor\u2019s note: \u201cUptown Funk\u201d was released in 2014.]]<\/p>\n

Q. Were you both singing together?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard: No, you picked your own song.<\/p>\n

Q. What did he pick?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard: I don\u2019t know, honestly. I kind of forget. Chuck, what did Sourdy sing for karaoke?<\/p>\n

Charlie Lindgren<\/a>: He sang \u201cThe Gambler.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard: Yeah the gambler, the gambler.<\/p>\n

Q. Are you a big karaoke guy?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard: I mean my sister Brianna loves to sing so we\u2019d always get microphones like those annoying microphones, like we\u2019d get them as Secret Santa gifts and then sometimes at Christmas events they would turn into stuff like that. That\u2019s probably like the only other time I\u2019ve done a karaoke.<\/p>\n

Q. This was at the Rookie dinner?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard: Yeah.<\/p>\n

Q. Where was it at?<\/p>\n

Ryan Leonard: Restaurant.<\/p>\n

What remains a mystery is what makes this performance so great that it became the team\u2019s victory song for the rest of the season. A mystery that may remain forever until the end of time \u2014 unless the ultimate super sleuth can crack the case.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t (know anything),\u201d Spencer Carbery said. \u201cI obviously hear it every time. I\u2019m like, \u2018That\u2019s interesting,\u2019 because it\u2019s not \u2014 usually [the victory song] is a newer song. That\u2019s been around for a while\u2026He did, like karaoke? Okay, I\u2019m going to do some digging.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ryan Leonard was bestowed quite an honor by his Washington Capitals teammates. Inside the locker room after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216],"class_list":["post-493738","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}