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Karl Michael
''The Voice UK'' is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. The second series was hosted by Holly Willoughby and Reggie Yates on BBC One and started on 30 March 2013. On 13 November 2012, it was confirmed that all four coaches from last year would return. On 22 June 2013, it was announced that Andrea Begley was the winner of The Voice UK, marking Danny O'Donoghue's first and only win as coach. This was the final series to feature Jessie J and Danny O'Donoghue as coaches, and Holly Willoughby and Reggie Yates as co-presenters. Coaches and presenters Upon the conclusion of the first series, it was reported that Jessie J was of threat to be axed from her position as a coach, after publicly criticising the programme’s production values. Cheryl, Kylie Minogue, Adele, Rihanna and Kelly Rowland were notable names suggested by the media as potential replacements. It was also suggested that Sir Tom Jones may also leave the series, admist speculation that C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Holly Willoughby
Holly Marie Willoughby ( ; born 10 February 1981) is an English television presenter, author and model. She has presented various television shows for ITV, most notably '' This Morning'' (2009–2023) and '' Dancing on Ice'' (2006–2011, 2018–2025). Willoughby's other television work includes '' The Xtra Factor'' (2008–2009), ''Text Santa'' (2011–2013, 2015), ''The Voice UK'' (2012–2013), '' Surprise Surprise'' (2012–2015), '' Play to the Whistle'' (2015–2017), '' I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here!'' (2018), '' Freeze the Fear with Wim Hof'' (2022), and ''The Games'' (2022). From 2008 to 2020, she was a team captain on the ITV2 comedy panel show '' Celebrity Juice.'' She is also a brand ambassador for Marks & Spencer and Garnier. Early life Willoughby was born in Brighton, East Sussex, the younger of two daughters of Brian Willoughby, a sales manager of a double-glazing company, and Linda Willoughby (née Fleming), a former air stewardess. She was raised in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rihanna
Robyn Rihanna Fenty ( ; born February 20, 1988) is a Barbadian singer, businesswoman, and actress. One of the List of music artists by net worth, wealthiest musicians in the world, List of awards and nominations received by Rihanna, her various accolades include nine Grammy Awards, twelve Billboard Music Award, ''Billboard'' Music Awards, and thirteen American Music Awards. Rihanna is one of the List of best-selling music artists, best-selling recording artists of all time, with sales estimated at 250 million units globally. Rihanna signed with Def Jam Recordings in 2005 and found mainstream recognition following the release of her first two studio albums, ''Music of the Sun'' (2005) and ''A Girl like Me (Rihanna album), A Girl Like Me'' (2006). Both influenced by Caribbean music, the albums peaked within the top ten on the US Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200 chart, with the latter spawning the US Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100-number one single "SOS (Rihanna song), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Television Centre
Television Centre (TVC), formerly known as BBC Television Centre, is a building complex in White City, London, White City, West London, which was the headquarters of BBC Television from 1960 to 2013, when BBC Television moved to Broadcasting House. After a refurbishment, the complex reopened in 2017, providing a mix of residential apartments, retail outlets, office space, and three studios operated by BBC Studioworks for TV production. The first BBC staff moved into the Scenery Block in 1953, and the centre was officially opened on 29 June 1960. It is one of the most readily recognisable facilities of its type, having appeared as the backdrop for many BBC programmes. Parts of the building are Listed building, Grade II listed, including the central ring and Studio 1. Most of the BBC's national television and radio news output came from Television Centre, and in later years most recorded television was output from the nearby Broadcast Centre at 201 Wood Lane, care of Red Bee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice Barlow
Alice Barlow is an English actress and singer who portrayed Rae Wilson in the Channel 4 soap opera ''Hollyoaks''. Career While a teenager Barlow won a national talent search Festival4Stars. In 2008, Barlow took part 'The Stobart Factor' a talent competition, which was judged by ''The X Factor'' judge Louis Walsh. Walsh gave Barlow positive comments on her singing and told her she had 'style'. Alice went on to win the competition and won £10,000, in which she put towards an Invisalign to straighten her teeth. In October 2009, Alice made her television debut as Rae Wilson in Channel 4's soap-opera, ''Hollyoaks''. While at ''Hollyoaks'', Barlow won an '' All About Soap'' award for "Best Love Triangle", along with Kieron Richardson and Emmett J. Scanlan. In early 2011, Barlow decided to leave the serial and her character was killed off in the late night spin-off ''Hollyoaks Later'', which aired in September 2011. Barlow's departure was kept a secret until her exit scenes were ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abi Sampa
Abi Sampa is a singer from London in the Indian classical tradition. She appeared in The Voice UK in 2013. She sings Qawwali, Carnatic and Western music. She was the first singer from an Asian tradition to appear on The Voice. She and Rushil Ranjan formed Orchestral Qawwali in 2020. Life Sampa was born in about 1986 and brought up in London by her Hindu Tamil parents from Sri Lanka. By the age of seven she playing the veena and she discovered her singing talent while performing Carnatic. She qualified as a dentist in 2011, and continues to practice dental work in London after her rise to fame on The Voice. She accompanies herself on the Veena and other Asian instruments, generally with other musicians. She supported Bryan Adams's tour of India in Ahmedabad in 2018 and was involved in the remake of We Are the World in 2018. In 2020 during lockdown the duo of Sampa and Rushil Ranjan (aka Orchestral Qawwali) released their first qawwali titled, Man Kunto Maula. Their ver ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin Chisholm (singer)
Colin Chisholm is a singer from Edinburgh. He was a member of Bilbo and had a UK #42 hit with them called " She's Gonna Win" and provided background vocals for the Runrig album '' The Big Wheel'', including for the song " Hearthammer", which made #25 on the UK Singles Chart. Hearts Squad Chisholm has never hidden his love for football, and is a supporter of Heart of Midlothian F.C. Heart of Midlothian Football Club, commonly known as Hearts, is a professional football club in Edinburgh, Scotland. The team competes in the , the top division of Scottish football. Hearts, the oldest football club in the Scottish capital, wa ... In 1986, he lent his vocals to an updated version of "Hearts Song", which was attributed to Hearts Squad featuring Colin Chisholm and charted at #92 on the UK Singles Chart. ''The Voice UK'' In 2013 Chisholm's daughter, Chloe, auditioned him for The Voice UK (series 2), the second series of ''The Voice UK''. He passed his audition and defaulted to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nate James
Nathaniel James Speas, known as Nate James, (born 15 September 1979 in Lakenheath, Suffolk, England) is an English singer-songwriter. James released his debut soul album '' Set the Tone'' in 2005 which won him two MOBO Nominations for Best Newcomer and Best R&B Artist, featuring his revered first release "Set The Tone" He released on his Frofunk imprint via Independent Labels around the world and became one of the most successful independent soul recording artists globally. James has sold over 1,000,000 albums and he has had airplay hits in both Europe and Japan. He won the Festivalbar in 2006, which was an Italian summertime singing contest that took place in the most important Italian city squares such as the Piazza del Duomo in Milan. In 2007, James won the Urban Music Awards' Best Album (''Kingdom Falls'') and Best Neo-Soul Artist. In February 2008, James and his band performed on the BBC show '' Later... with Jools Holland''. Nate was a contestant on the BBC's prime time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matt Henry (singer)
Matt Henry is a Laurence Olivier Award-winning British singer and actor. Career Henry's first career highlight was being chosen by the Prince's Trust to perform at the Two Nations Concert at Johannesburg Stadium in 1997 alongside the Spice Girls, Billy Ocean, and Omar. Henry studied at the Roehampton University of Surrey, now known as University of Roehampton, obtaining a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Drama and Sociology, before continuing his theatrical training at the Urdang Academy in London's Covent Garden. Henry answered an open call to audition as understudy for Simba in ''The Lion King'' while he was in his second year at Urdang Academy in London. As a student, he was not supposed to audition for professional roles, but skipped his classes. When he returned, the principal summoned Henry to his office and asked where he had been. He said he was ill and the principal told him that the casting director of ''The Lion King'' called and said he had the part. His early Wes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cleo Higgins
Cleopatra Madonna "Cleo" Higgins is a British R&B/soul/pop singer, dancer and songwriter based in Manchester, England. Higgins is the lead singer of the eponymously named sister girl group, Cleopatra. Music career Early career In 2000, Higgins branched out from Cleopatra and recorded two duets with tenor Russell Watson. The first song, "Someone Like You", was featured on Watson's multi-platinum debut album '' The Voice'', which climbed to No. 1 on the U.S. classical charts. Higgins and Watson performed the song both on tour and on the National Lottery and they collaborated a second time, recording another duet called "The Best That Love Can Be" for Watson's third album, ''Reprise''. In 2001, Higgins headlined the Young Voices in Concert tour, performing at the Manchester Arena in front of 15,000 people as she and almost 7,000 choir members set a new Guinness World Record for the largest choir assembled in the UK. The performance was aired on the BBC's long-standing prog ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
YouTube
YouTube is an American social media and online video sharing platform owned by Google. YouTube was founded on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim who were three former employees of PayPal. Headquartered in San Bruno, California, it is the second-most-visited website in the world, after Google Search. In January 2024, YouTube had more than 2.7billion monthly active users, who collectively watched more than one billion hours of videos every day. , videos were being uploaded to the platform at a rate of more than 500 hours of content per minute, and , there were approximately 14.8billion videos in total. On November 13, 2006, YouTube was purchased by Google for $1.65 billion (equivalent to $ billion in ). Google expanded YouTube's business model of generating revenue from advertisements alone, to offering paid content such as movies and exclusive content produced by and for YouTube. It also offers YouTube Premium, a paid subs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Salford, Greater Manchester
Salford ( ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city in Greater Manchester, England, on the western bank of the River Irwell which forms its boundary with Manchester city centre. Landmarks include the former Salford Town Hall, town hall, Salford Cathedral, Salford Lads' Club and St Philip's Church, Salford, St Philip's Church. In 2021 it had a population of 129,794. The demonym for people from Salford is ''Salfordian''. Salford is the main settlement of the wider City of Salford metropolitan borough, which incorporates Eccles, Greater Manchester, Eccles, Pendlebury, Swinton, Greater Manchester, Swinton and Walkden. Salford was named in the Early Middle Ages, though evidence exists of settlement since Neolithic times. It was the seat of the large Hundred of Salford in the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire and was granted a market charter in about 1230, which gave it primary cultural and commercial importance in the region.. It was eventually overt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MediaCityUK
MediaCityUK is a mixed-use property development on the banks of the Manchester Ship Canal in City of Salford, Salford, Greater Manchester, England. The project was developed by The Peel Group, Peel Media; its principal tenants are Mass media, media organisations and the Quayside MediaCityUK shopping centre. The land occupied by the development was part of the Port of Manchester and Manchester docks. The BBC signalled its intention to move jobs to Manchester in 2004, and the Salford Quays site was chosen in 2006. The Peel Group was granted planning permission to develop the site in 2007, and construction of the development, with its own energy generation plant and communications network, began the same year. Based in Quay House, the principal tenant is the BBC, whose move marks a large-scale decentralisation from London. ITV Granada completed the first phase of its move to MediaCityUK on 25 March 2013, followed in two stages by the northern arm of ITV Studios: the second stage i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
