Friday, 20 June 2008
Connie Talbot
Artist: Connie Talbot
Genre(s):
Easy Listening
Discography:
Over The Rainbow
Year: 2007
Tracks: 12
What is it with Britain and cute kids? The music manufacture from time to time throws up novelties whether they be tattle animals, alive puppets, or cunning children, and especially in the days of realness TV gift shows, which ar open to all eld groups, unitary can require to find contest from a very, selfsame young person wHO just happens to have that ahhh factor, whether or non they can actually talk. And to the highest degree of the time, it seems cruel if the judges criticise in any way, so they don't. Such was the eccentric with Connie Talbot, a six-year-old wHO appeared on, was the deary to win, and finally ruined as second best to Paul Potts on the 2007 series of Britain's Got Talent, an all-comers gift depict where jugglers competed with dancers and singers, and gory body part mutilation was also on the bill.
She was born in Walsall in the midlands of Britain on November 20, 2000, to Sharon and Gavin Talbot and entered the gift depict Britain's Got Talent only for a house day verboten, only melted the hearts of the book of Judges and the voting public with her virtuous, cherubic renditions of the songs "Over the Rainbow" and "Ben," and disdain performances that were non whole unflawed, cypher dared pronounce a word against her, and with the cunning fry factor on her side, she was installed as one of the favorites to deliver the goods simply eventually terminated up as the runner-up to Potts, the opera isaac Merrit Singer.
Signing to Simon Cowell's Sony BMG judge, she was dropped before whatever product could be released, the bosses at the track record company disagreeing with Cowell that Talbot was very much overly pres Young to be embarking on a recording life history, and as a record label they did non want to soak the girl of her devoid childhood. Perhaps they likewise saw that having such a young child on the books is no guarantee to long-run winner, and apart from one album that may or may non be profitable, it was non where they saw themselves positioned in the mart.
A children's division of Rhythm Riders called Rainbow Records was set up specifically for Talbot, wHO saw no such problems in having such a thomas Young baby signed to a transcription contract, and by November the record album Over the Rainbow was ready for dismission. Hyped to the point where it was considered a possibility for the Christmas number one of 2007, the record album disappointingly crashed into the chart at number 35 and was already almost out of the chart earlier Christmas hebdomad, and the single "T. H. White Christmas" failed to chart at all.