Interview with Danyl
His X Factor audition has over 34 million views on YouTube and counting, Dannii Minogue described it as "the absolute perfect audition" and Simon Cowell claimed it was "single handedly the best first audition" he had ever heard.
I recently caught up with Danyl, the man behind this famous audition as he now focuses on his solo career, a new collaboration, charity work and much more.
But before we spoke about all that, I couldn't just brush over his outstanding rise to fame on Britain's top singing competition. He queued up for 18 hours some six years ago before walking out on stage and delivering a jaw dropping and exhilarating rendition of The Beatles classic 'With A Little Help From My Friends' and well, as they say... the rest is history!
Although Danyl is now beginning to come into his own as a solo and individual artist, he spoke of how highly he regarded the X Factor's role in his success.
"After time, you do kind of naturally separate yourself from the show, not on purpose of course, I'm really grateful because the X Factor kind of gives you your name and no one would ever know your name if it wasn't for the show.
I always find that when you do a show like X Factor it's really important to find out what sort of artist you are and what sort of music you fit into, in our year we had the likes of Olly Murs, Stacey Solomon and Joe McElderry and I knew exactly what kind of music they would fit into. I kind of felt like I knew what suited everyone else but not myself so Jamie Archer told me to watch my first audition again and told me that that was the type of performance that suited me."Danyl then travelled to Nashville in the United States where he met with some songwriters and worked on various different projects which he claimed were great fun to be part of. He also admitted that after a show like the X Factor it is up to the individual to work hard for themselves and make the
opportunities come about and that can sometimes be difficult. That said, Danyl has just finished working on a brand new collaboration with Soshal:Swim called 'Coming Back'.
"I've been friends with one of the producers of Soshal:Swim for a very long time and I actually went to him with a track and asked him if he could lay down some vocals for it and he came back to me with a different track and asked me to lay down some vocals for that, which I did and all of a sudden the two producers Harry and Aaron were running away with it and yeah, the song is called 'Coming Back' and it's out on the 17th of July and available to pre-order from next week."
Danyl also revealed that he may be going back into the studio with other producers following the release of this track but I think we will keep that one on the down low and keep it as a surprise for his fans! As well as that, he hopes to do a couple of gigs in his hometown of Reading and then branch out to other venues as time goes on.
As I mentioned earlier, in his spare time, Danyl has worked tirelessly with a number of charities across the UK including a few projects with The Ellen MacArthur Cancer Trust.
"That's one of the good things about doing the X Factor is people ask you to come along to different events and then what actually happens is you're not there because you're being paid or because you're forced to go but because you genuinely care. With Ellen MacArthur's Cancer Trust, what we do is we take children and young adults post cancer and bring them sailing for a week, teach them how to sail. And it's just the most amazing experience."
Follow Danyl on Twitter: @DanylAJohnson
Like his page on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/danyl.music
And check out his track 'Coming Home' on YouTube!
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