{"key":"64500","name":"Olly Murs","bio":"Oliver Stanley \"Olly\" Murs (born May 14, 1984 in Witham, Essex, England) is an English singer-songwriter. He achieved second place on the sixth series of The X Factor in 2009. In early 2010, he was signed to Syco Music and Epic Records, which are owned by Sony Music. After he toured with X Factor Finalists tour, he began recording his debut album.Murs' debut single, \"Please Don't Let Me Go\" charted at number one on the UK Singles Chart, after releasing it on 27 August, beating Katy Perry's \"Teenage Dream\" to the #1 spot. Olly's debut album followed his second official single \"Thinking of Me\", which charted at number four on the UK Singles Charts, and a week later Murs debut album, Olly Murs, charted at number two on the UK Albums Chart.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/64500_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"66228","name":"Ella Henderson","bio":"Ella Henderson (born 12 January 1996) is a 19 year old singer-songwriter from Lincolnshire, England. She was a contestant on the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012 and finished in sixth place.Ella is a big fan of Amy Winehouse and Frank Sinatra and picked out Olly Murs and Leona Lewis as her favorite X Factor contestants from previous series\u2019 of the show. Ella confessed that she'd love to sing with Adele or Beyonc\u00e9.Her debut single, \"Ghost\", co-written with Ryan Tedder, was released on 8 June 2014 and went straight to number one in the UK. Her second single, Glow, was released on 5 October 2014. It was followed on 13 October 2014 by her debut album Chapter One.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/66228_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"8193","name":"Little Mix","bio":"Little Mix (previously Rhythmix) are the 2011 winners of The X Factor, and the first ever group to win the grand prize. Their debut single, a cover of the Damien Rice ballad Cannonball was released digitally the morning after their win. The song was produced by Fazer, from the band N-Dubz. The lead single from their debut album, Wings, was released on August 19, 2012 and reached number 1 in the official UK charts. Their second single to be released was DNA, which was also the title of their debut album. The song DNA shows a slightly darker side of the girlband.The band consists of Essex former-barmaid Jesy Nelson (20), High Wycombe former-waitress Leigh-Anne Pinnock (19), and South Shields former-students Perrie Edwards and Jade Thirlwall (both 18). The group was formed at the 2011 X Factor bootcamp in London from singers who auditioned as soloists.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/8193_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"40,000 - 75,000"}

{"key":"18201","name":"Fifth Harmony","bio":"Fifth Harmony (commonly initialized as 5H) is five-member American girl group formed on the second season of The X Factor in 2012. The group are from Miami, Florida, United States, the members consists of Ally Brooke, Normani Hamilton, Dinah Jane Hansen, Camila Cabello, and Lauren Jauregui. They signed a joint deal with Syco Music, owned by Simon Cowell, and Epic Records, L.A. Reid's record label, after finishing in third place behind Tate Stevens and Carly Rose Sonenclar on the show.Fifth Harmony won MTV's Artist To Watch award at the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards. In 2014, Fifth Harmony was labeled as the #1 most 'Influential' X Factor USA contestant of all-time by FoxWeekly. Their debut EP, \"Better Together\" was released in 2013 with a first week position of No. 6 on the Billboard 200. Their debut studio album, \"Reflection\" was released on January 30, 2015, going to #5 on the US Billboard 200. The album included the song Worth It (feat. Kid Ink) which became their biggest hit, peaking at #12.Fifth Harmony is composed of five singers who all successfully auditioned as soloists on The X Factor, but failed to progress individually to the Judges' Houses stage of the competition. They were later formed as a group at the end of bootcamp by Simon Cowell, thus qualifying for the \"Groups\" category. Originally, the group's name was \"LYLAS\" (acronym for Love You Like a Sister), but another group called \"The Lylas\" (which consists of four of Bruno Mars' sisters) claimed that the show stole their name. Thereafter, LYLAS changed their name to \"1432\" (which stands for I Love You Too), which was announced on the first live show on October 31, 2012, during which 1432 performed \"We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together\" by Taylor Swift. Simon Cowell and L.A. Reid were critical of the new name, and Cowell suggested that the group be renamed again. During the first live results show on November 1, 2012, 1432 performed \"Skyscraper\" by Demi Lovato in a sing-off with Sister C. Cowell decided to send 1432 through to the Top 12 and he announced that they would be renamed by the viewers online. The name chosen by the public was announced: \"Fifth Harmony\".","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/18201_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"100,000 - 200,000"}

{"key":"41923","name":"James Arthur","bio":"James Andrew Arthur (born 1988) is a British singer and musician who won the ninth series of The X Factor in 2012. His debut single, Impossible, was released after the final and debuted at #1 on the UK Singles Chart on 16 December 2012 in its first week of release.Since 2005, and prior to his participation in The X Factor, he was a vocalist and guitarist in a number of bands, and later, as a solo artist as well as forming his own The James Arthur Band and James Arthur Project.Arthur was born in Middlesbrough, England to English mother Shirley Ashworth and Scottish father Neil Arthur. James\u2019 father was a delivery driver, but also used to be a DJ and a drummer for many years. Arthur\u2019s parents split when he was just two-years-old and each settled with a new partner. Neil and Shirley were not on talking terms with each other for more than twenty years. But they agreed to attend the show together in a family reunion to attend their son\u2019s performance.Arthur first went to Ings Farm Primary School in Redcar, North Yorkshire. When he was nine, he moved with his mother Shirley and his step father Ronald Rafferty to Bahrain where he studied at the local British School of Bahrain for four years. When they split, Arthur, then 14, had to move back with his mother and his two half-sisters Jasmine and Neve to the UK to live in a modest house in Saltburn-by-the-Sea.Upon his return, he continued his studies at Redcar\u2019s Rye Hills School.Arthur has five siblings, an older brother called Neil Arthur, an older sister called Sian Arthur, and three younger sisters, Charlotte Arthur and Jasmin and Neve Rafferty.Arthur has been writing and recording songs since he was 15 as an unsigned artist both solo and in many bands including:Moonlight Drive - a Cleveland-based progressive, experimental, rock five-piece band with Arthur in lead vocals. The band was active between 2005 and 2008. They had recordings such as \u00abSaid You\u2019d Be There\u00bb, \u00abHole in My Heart\u00bb and \u00abTear Me Apart\u00bb.Cue the Drama - an alternative rock band based in Marske-by-the-Sea and active between 2005 and 2008. Recordings included \u00abOn the Radio 98KUPD\u00bb, \u00abIt\u2019s Killing Me\u00bb, \u00abI Reach You\u00bb and \u00abIt Hurts\u00bb.Save Arcade - a Middlesbrough alternative rock band made up of Arthur (vocals, guitar), Josh Brown (keyboards, vocals), Matthew Green (guitar), Alex Beer (bass, vocals), Travis Shaw (guitar, percussions, vocals) and Karl Dowson (drums). In 2009, the band released a three-track EP called Truth, carrying the title track \u00abThe Truth\u00bb, as well as \u00abEchoes\u00bb and \u00abI Un-Proudly Present\u00bb. In June 2010, the band released a five-track EP, Tonight We Dine in Hades, which in addition to the title track \u00abTonight We Dine in Hades\u00bb included \u00abSuperhero\u00bb, \u00abYou Always Want a Fight\u00bb, \u00abJuliet Is Not Dead\u00bb and \u00abShe Aims to Please\u00bb. Both releases were on the independent 57 Records UK.Emerald Skye - a four-piece indie pop\/rock band formed in March 2011 based in Redcar \/ Saltburn-by-the-Sea and made up of Arthur (guitar, vocals), Dean Harrison (piano, violin), Paul Gill (bass) and Save Arcade bandmate Green (drums).Arthur also uploaded many of his own songs to Soundcloud and YouTube including an album entitled Sins by the Sea. In 2011, he auditioned for The Voice UK and made it into the final 200 contestants but no further.In early 2012, he recorded songs and released two EPs as The James Arthur Band. The band consisted of Arthur (vocals and guitar), Jez Taylor (guitar), Chris Smalls (keyboards), Jordan Swain (drums) and Rich Doney (bass). In 2012, the band released The EP Collection CD with nine tracks with R&B, soul and hip hop influences, a compilation of tracks on both EPs. Arthur also released an EP named Hold On under the name The James Arthur Project in August 2012 in collaboration with John McGough. The tracks were written and arranged by McGough, and mixed by Matt Wanstall with all vocals by Arthur.Arthur auditioned for The X Factor with an acoustic rendition of judge Tulisa Contostavlos\u2019s \u00abYoung\u00bb, before explaining his past, including spells in care and time spent on the streets after break-ups within his family. He also revealed his father and mother had not spoken to each other for over 20 years, and this was a reunion of sorts for them to attend his audition. After his judges\u2019 houses performance of \u00abI Can\u2019t Make You Love Me\u00bb, he was picked by his mentor Nicole Scherzinger as one of the 12 contestants for the live shows, and one of just three in the \u00abBoys\u00bb category. After the second live show, Arthur suffered from an anxiety attack backstage. Whilst being treated at the studio, paramedics determined he did not need to go to hospital, and he was ordered back to his hotel to rest. He later returned for the results show the following. Arthur was in the bottom two in week 7 after performing \u00abCan\u2019t Take My Eyes Off You\u00bb. He sang \u00abFallin\u2019\u00bb for survival against Ella Henderson, with the judges going to deadlock after their vote was evenly split 2-2 (mentor Scherzinger and Gary Barlow voting to keep him, while Contostavlos and Louis Walsh voted in favour of Henderson). Arthur was then saved by the public vote. On 8 December, he made it through to the second night of the live finals.Arthur won The X Factor on 9 December 2012, with 53.7% of the vote, against Jahm\u00e9ne Douglas who received 38.9% of the vote.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/41923_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"203634","name":"Aiden Grimshaw","bio":"Aiden Grimshaw, 22, is a singer-songwriter. 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, and making it through to judge houses where he performed \"Cannonball\" by Damien Rice to mentor Dannii Minogue and Natalie Imbruglia making him one of the three boys in the 2010 edition of The X Factor. He controversially finished 9th.His debut single was released 3rd June 2012, entitled \"Is This Love?\", reaching #35 in the UK charts. His debut album, \"Misty Eye\" was released on 20th August 2012, reaching #19 in the UK charts","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/203634_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"113202","name":"Dami Im","bio":"Dami Im (Korean: \uc784\ub2e4\ubbf8, born 17 October 1988) is a South Korean-born Australian singer, best known as the winner of the fifth series of The X Factor Australia in 2013. She subsequently signed with Sony Music Australia and released her winner's single \"Alive\", which debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart.Dami Im was born in South Korea and emigrated to Australia at the age of nine, with her mother and younger brother. Im's father Dong Eal Im stayed in South Korea to support the family. Her parents now live together, spending part of the year in Australia and part in South Korea. Im taught herself to sing by recording herself copying her favourite artists. At the age of 11, she began studying at the Young Conservatorium of Music program at Griffith University. Aside from singing, Im is also a violinist and pianist. She was a national finalist in the Yamaha Youth Piano Competition, and won the Nora Baird Scholarship and the Queensland Piano Competition several times. Im attended John Paul College in Daisy Hill, Queensland and graduated in 2005. She never sang while at school and would only accompany the choir on piano, and play violin for the school's Silver Strings group. In 2009, Im graduated from the University of Queensland with first class honours in a Bachelor of Music. Prior to entering The X Factor, Im was a music and piano teacher.Im had a short career as a gospel singer in Korea. In 2010, she released a studio album, Dream, which consisted of nine tracks and was recorded to raise money for church endeavours. In July 2011, Im re-released the album with two extra tracks, which were both sung in English. On 5 December 2011, Im released a Christmas extended play called Snow & Carol, which consisted of seven tracks. On 9 July 2012, Im released Intimacy, which consisted of five tracks.Im successfully auditioned for the fifth series of The X Factor Australia in 2013. She sang \"Hero\" by Mariah Carey and progressed to the super bootcamp stage of the competition. On the first day of bootcamp, Im was placed in the Under 25 Girls category and sang \"I'm with You\" by Avril Lavigne in front of her entire category and judges Redfoo, Ronan Keating and Dannii Minogue. On the second day of super bootcamp, she was put into an ensemble of 10 and they sang \"Next to Me\" by Emeli Sand\u00e9 in front of the judges. Im made it to the third day of bootcamp, where she sang \"Jolene\" by Dolly Parton to the judges and a live audience of one thousand. After the judges made changes to the Boys, Girls and Overs categories, Im became part of the newly formed Over 24s category and she got eliminated. However, Im was called back for home visits in New York City to replace Matt Gresham who decided he could not commit to the competition. During home visits, she sang \"If I Were a Boy\" by Beyonc\u00e9 in front of her mentor Dannii Minogue and guest mentor Kylie Minogue. Dannii later selected Im, along with Barry Southgate and Cat Vas, for the live finals\u2014a series of ten weekly live shows in which contestants are progressively eliminated by public vote.For the Judges' Choice-themed first live show, Im sang \"One\" by U2 and received a standing ovation from the judges. Natalie Bassingthwaighte said she had \"the best vocal of the night.\" Im's performance of \"One\" peaked at number 42 on the ARIA Singles Chart. For the Legends-themed second live show, she sang \"Purple Rain\" by Prince and received another standing ovation. Keating told Im that the competition \"at the moment, is yours.\" Her performance of \"Purple Rain\" debuted at number 29 on the ARIA Singles Chart. For the Top 10 Hits-themed third live show, Im sang Thelma Houston's version of \"Don't Leave Me This Way\", and her performance of the song debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at number 67. Following the eliminations of Vas (in week two) and Southgate (in week three), Im became the only remaining contestant in the Over 24s category. After her performance of Katy Perry's \"Roar\" in the Latest and Greatest-themed fourth live show, Im received her fourth consecutive standing ovation from the judges. Im's performance of \"Roar\" debuted at number 44 on the ARIA Singles Chart. For the Rock-themed fifth live show, she sang \"Best of You\" by the Foo Fighters and received her fifth standing ovation. Keating told Im that it is \"an honour to work on this show with talent like you.\" Im's performance of \"Best of You\" debuted at number 78 on the ARIA Singles Chart.Following Im's performance of Simon & Garfunkel's \"Bridge over Troubled Water\" in the Family Heroes-themed sixth live show, her mentor Dannii notably teared up as she dedicated Im's song choice to her parents and grandfather, following the death of her grandmother. Im's performance of \"Bridge over Troubled Water\" debuted at number 15 on the ARIA Singles Chart. For the Judges' Challenge-themed seventh live show, Im sang Zedd's \"Clarity\", which was chosen by Keating, and her performance debuted at number 77 on the ARIA Singles Chart. Im received a mixed feedback from the judges following her performance of John Farnham's \"You're the Voice\" during the Aussie Week-themed eighth live show. Keating said \"it was pitchy and a weak performance\" and Bassingthwaighte agreed. For the Power and Passion-themed ninth live show, Im sang \"Saving All My Love for You\" by Whitney Houston and \"Wrecking Ball\" by Miley Cyrus. Her performances of \"Wrecking Ball\" and \"Saving All My Love for You\" debuted on the ARIA Singles Chart at numbers 61 and 85 respectively.During the grand final performance show on 27 October, Im was required to perform three songs \u2013 her audition song, winner's single and last shot song. Im's winner's single was \"Alive\" and her last shot song was \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\". Her performance of \"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going\", which debuted at number 29 on the ARIA Singles Chart, saw all four judges standing on the desk. Redfoo said Im's performance was \"the best thing I've ever seen in my life\", while Dannii added that she is \"world class.\" Im's performance of \"Hero\" debuted at number 62. During the grand final decider show the following day, Im was announced as the winner.After winning The X Factor, Im's single \"Alive\" was released on iTunes. She also received a recording contract with Sony Music Australia and a management deal. Four days after release, \"Alive\" debuted at number one on the ARIA Singles Chart and was certified Gold by the Australian Recording Industry Association for selling 35,000 copies. In November 2013, Im will embark on The X Factor Live Tour across Australia with Third Degree, Taylor Henderson, Jiordan Tolli and Jai Waetford. Her self-titled album Dami Im will be released on 15 November 2013, and features studio recordings of songs she performed on The X Factor.Im was selected by broadcaster SBS to represent Australia at the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest in Stockholm, Sweden where she will perform a new song called \"Sound of Silence\". She was revealed as the Australian representative on March 3, 2016 during 2014 winner Conchita Wurst's concert in Sydney.Im cites Beyonc\u00e9, Mariah Carey, Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae and Chris Tomlin as her musical influences. Aside from singing, she also plays piano and violin.","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/113202_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"51012","name":"Marco Mengoni","bio":"Marco Mengoni was born in Ronciglione, the Christmas's day of 1988. He partecipated to the third edition of Italian X-Factor and won it..After his win he released his first EPcalled \u201cDove si vola\u201d (\u201cwhere you fly\u201d ), including 2 new songs and 5 covers (2 of them in english: \"Psycho killer\" and \"Man in the mirror\"). This CD in Italy sold 70.000 copies and more, and went platinum.This february Marco won third place in the sixtieth edition of the Sanremo Music Festival with the song Credimi ancora (in english Believe Me Again) and released a new minialbum, titled \"Re Matto\".","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/51012_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}

{"key":"85770","name":"Ruth Lorenzo","bio":"Ruth Lorenzo (born 10 November 1982) is a Spanish singer from Murcia, Spain. Lorenzo is notable for coming fifth in the fifth series of the British version of TV talent show The X Factor in 2008. This was the year which saw Alexandra Burke win. Lorenzo's performance of \"Purple Rain\" (Prince) in the show went on to reach over one million views via YouTube in less than one week before it was removed. In 2014, Lorenzo expressed interest in the Eurovision Song Contest and submitted a self penned track entitled \"Dancing in the Rain.\" Ruth went on to take part in the 2014 Spanish National Final and received the highest number of public votes. Lorenzo represented Spain in Copenhagen in May 2014 and the song scored 74 points for Spain, finishing in 10th place out of 37 countries. Lorenzo joins Spanish singer Pastora Soler in being two of the most successful Spanish acts in Eurovision in recent years. Lorenzo's highly anticipated debut album \"Planeta Azul (Blue Planet)\" was released on 27 October 2014. The collection has so far spawned two radio hits 'Gigantes' and 'Renuncio'At the age of one, Ruth loved the film Annie and would sing along in English, even though she had no idea what the words meant. Her mother nurtured Ruth's love of music by playing music and dancing with her.Ruth was six when she first heard Monserat Caballet, an opera singer in Spain and she started to sing opera when her mother bought her Monserat's album. Ruth imitated her vocals until she was pitch perfect to the iconic Spanish opera singer.At twelve years old, Ruth moved to America with her family and this was the first time Ruth had the opportunity to get involved with music at school. She took every music, theatre, dance and choir lesson going and all of her teachers encouraged Ruth, she was put into competitions and played lead roles in My Fair Lady and Phantom of the Opera.The family moved back to Spain when Ruth was 16 and although Ruth had some singing lessons by this point, she had to give them up due to the financial difficulties her family were having. Ruth gave up on her dream as it was becoming clear that it would never be something that would pay the bills.Ruth was approached by a rock band when she was 19 this was a new challenge because she had only ever sung classical music. Ruth made the decision that she would give up her job at the family business and follow her dream once again. The band became very close as the toured Spain and Ruth stayed with them for 3 years.Before X Factor UK, at the age of 19, Ruth auditioned for 'Operacion Triunfo' Spain's biggest TV talent show at the time. http:\/\/www.ruthlorenzo.tv\/ruth_biography.html","featuredImage":"https:\/\/assets.allamericanmusic.com\/images\/85770_h_0.jpg","feeRange":"please contact"}