Leon Jackson

Using a classic rags-to-riches talent contest story book finishing, Scottish jazz singer Leon Jackson surprised audiences over the U.K. by getting the fourth champion of the greatly well-known The X Aspect. Delivered in Whitburn, Western world Lothian, in 1988, Jackson was raised by his one mother and proved helpful as a Distance clothing store product sales helper before his meteoric rise to popularity. Astonishingly, he just uncovered he could sing at age 18, after close friends entered him within a karaoke competition. Motivated by modern jazz, and specifically Michael Bublé, Leon started practicing daily, and a few months before he was because of begin an architectural technology training course at Napier College or university, he requested ITV’s The X-Factor. After obtaining through both audition stage in Glasgow as well as the “training” stage in London, Jackson journeyed to Ibiza, where he was selected by his coach, Dannii Minogue, to compete in the live finals. After a shaky initial show, where Simon Cowell argued he’d used the area of somebody even more talented, he quickly discovered his foot and soon surfaced among the dark horses of your competition. Defying both bookies and Cowell himself, he managed to get through to the ultimate where he performed a duet with Kylie Minogue on the swing-style interpretation of “Better the Devil YOU UNDERSTAND.” With almost 60 percent from the vote, he triumphed over the favourite, Rhydian Roberts, and earned a million-pound documenting agreement with Syco Music/Sony BMG. His debut solitary, “When YOU THINK,” a cover from the Mariah Carey/Whitney Houston 1999 Oscar earning duet, became the Xmas number one and finally offered over 400,000 copies. Like Leona Lewis before him, Simon Cowell made the decision against rush-releasing a debut recording and it had been a complete nine weeks before his following single, “Don’t Contact This Like,” compiled by Chris Braide and Carl Falk, was presented with its premiere. His debut recording, Right Now, premiered in Oct 2008.