Matt Cardle (born circa 1983), resident in Little Maplestead in Essex, is an English singer. On 12 December 2010, he won the seventh series of the ITV television programme The X Factor winning a £1m recording contract to Syco Music owned by Sony Music Entertainment, finishing ahead of Rebecca Ferguson. His cover of Biffy Clyro song "Many Of Horror", renamed "When We Collide", was released immediately after winning the contest.
Aiden Grimshaw, 18, is a student from North Shore, Blackpool. He attends the Michael Hall Theatre School and played Tom Holmes in CBBC show Half Moon Investigations. He auditioned with "Gold Digger" by Kanye West, prompting Cowell to say "Now that's what I call a pop star!". He then auditioned with "This Year's Love" by David Gray during Boot Camp wowing the judges again, helping him get through to the final 32...
Belle Amie is a 3-member girl band made up Rebecca Creighton, 21, an unemployed hairdresser from Tallaght, Esther Campbell, 17, a student from London and Sophia Wardman, 23, a student from Scarborough, North Yorkshire and former member Geneva Lane. Geneva left the group shortly after the X Factor. Wardman was a contestant on reality TV show Shipwrecked: Battle of the Islands 2007. They all applied as solo candidates to the competition, but the judges, after a suggestion by Cowell, put them in a band qualifying for the Groups category in the 2010 edition of The X Factor in London, UK.
Katie Waissel is a 24 year old from London who auditioned for UK TV talent show The X Factor in 2010 and was put through to the boot camp stage of the competition after preforming 'At Last' and 'We Are The Champions', she was selected by her mentor Cheryl Cole to go through to the live show stage of the competition due to start in October 2010.
After appearing on the show, it emerged she previously had a US record deal recording under the name Katie Vogel and Katie V after appearing on an online reality show entitled 'Green Eyed World'...
There are various artists with the same name: 1. James Michael (born on September 26, 1968 in Holland, Michigan) is an American record producer, songwriter and musician best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist for Sixx:A.M. (which features Nikki Sixx of Mötley Crüe and Dj Ashba of Guns N' Roses, formerly of Beautiful Creatures). With Sixx:A.M., he released The Heroin Diaries Soundtrack as well as the Live Is Beautiful EP while his debut solo album, titled Inhale, was released in 2000.