David Grant (singer)

For other persons named David Grant, see David Grant (disambiguation).

David Grant (born 8 August 1956, in Hackney, London) is a British pop singer and celebrity vocal coach.

[edit] Career

Grant became famous in the early 1980s as a member of UK soul/funk duo Linx, whose biggest hit was "Intuition" in 1981.^[1] He began a solo career in 1983 with the Top 40 hit "Stop and Go". Further hits included "Watching You Watching Me" and the Top 10 duet with Jaki Graham, "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love". He has also worked as a session singer for artists including Diana Ross and The Lighthouse Family.

In recent years Grant has become well known, along with his wife Carrie Grant, as a vocal coach on the BBC TV talent show Fame Academy and its spin-off Comic Relief does Fame Academy. In addition, in working with some of the UK’s top pop acts including Take That, S Club, and more recently Will Young, Atomic Kitten, Mel C, Lemar, Charlotte Church. Grant was also a key figure in the discovery and development of up and coming teenage soul singer Julian Perretta[1].

He also appears regularly as a panelist on the Five topical debate show, The Wright Stuff. In 2006 he appeared in the four part BBC television series The Sound of Musicals, which was filmed in 2005.

In September 2006 he appeared on Masterchef.