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This week, 10 years ago, I performed Uptown Funk live on The X Factor! A moment that changed everything for me. My song was changed the day before the live show because someone on Simon Cowell’s team heard the song and the team asked me if I’d be up for learning it for the next day. I heard it, saw the video and decided to take the risk.
We rehearsed the choreography the day before and I had to get the song in my head. I was SO nervous, but had no idea what that moment would do for me and my future. The song wasn’t even released in the UK, so no one knew it yet. The reaction was incredible and my version went to Number 1 the day after, while I was still in the competition. That performance changed the course of my entire X Factor journey and my career.
Since then, so many doors have opened for me and the opportunities I’ve had have been incredible for me and my family. I’m so grateful for the platform that experience gave me and what it has allowed me to achieve since. I’m so pleased I was brave enough to take the risk and go for it!
Thank you to all of you who have supported me since X Factor and over the past ten years. To everyone who has believed in me and encouraged me. I was a girl from Walthamstow with a dream and if I’d never believed in myself and queued up that day back in 2014 to audition, I wouldn’t be where I am today.
If you are waiting for a sign to follow your dream and silence that voice of doubt that we all have at times, this is it! Go and fulfil your dream. Take that risk. You never know what could be waiting for you behind that door. KICK IT DOWN! | Posted on 05/Dec/2024 17:28:11
