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Michael Collings
12+ albums
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Michael Collings (born 1990 in Plymouth) auditioned for Britain's Got Talent singing Tracy Chapman's Fast Car and receiving a rave response from the judges, particularly for his 'unique husky voice'. The audition was noted for the judges having pre-judgements of Collings, particularly due to his dress sense. He made it through to the next round and subsequently the semi-finals. His performance's airing resulted in the original version by Tracy Chapman re-entering the UK Singles Chart at number 4 the following week. In the semi-final on 3 June, Collings sang Paul Weller's "You Do Something to Me" and was praised by the judges, with Cowell stating that he didn't need 'gimmicks'. Hasselhoff gushed that Collings ‘blew him away’ and said that he is like a ‘young Chris Rea.’. His audition has gained over 25 million views on YouTube on the official video with many video reposts also getting well over 1million views also. On 7 November 2011, Collings released his cover of "Fast Car" as a single. He put out an EP called 'It's Not You' which is available on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify etc. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
