Lloyd Wade is an English gospel and soul singer and pop vocal coach from South London. He achieved some fame in the UK
Christian music
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scene performing with his brothers Denis, Derek and David in the group
the Wades
The Wades are a UK gospel and R&B group from South London.
Musical career
The band formed in the late 1980s, and was most active from 1987 to 2000.
The group has released several albums, and is renowned for their dynamic live performances. Th ...
in the 1990s, including a set at Champion of the World in
Wembley Stadium
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in 1997.
He was working as a vocal coach and teacher of social behaviour in an
inclusion (education)
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department when he appeared as a contestant in the
2004 series of ''
The X Factor
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'', and made the final 5 of the "over 25" category, which was mentored by
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell (; born 7 October 1959) is an English television personality, entrepreneur and record executive. He is the creator of ''The X Factor'' and ''Got Talent'' franchises which have been sold around the world. He has judged on t ...
.
Early life and career
Wade learned his trade in gospel music singing with his brothers in the MOBO nominated group The Wades for 18 years. The Wades toured extensively across Europe and Australia during the nineties, playing at many notable venues such as The Royal Festival Hall, Wembley Arena, Wembley Stadium and the Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane Entertainment Centres. Their largest single festival audience was at the Chicago Gospel Festival in Grant Park where they performed live to some 100,000 festival goers, as well as many radio and television appearances throughout their career.
Wade attended regular vocal classes throughout his early development as a singer and in 1991 he became a vocal coach. Wade has worked closely with the BBC Fame Academy judges David and Carrie Grant for their vocal session company both as a session singer and as an associate vocal coach. Wade has been instrumental in helping to shape the vocal prowess of many people over the last 18 years such as
Daniel Bedingfield
Daniel John Bedingfield (born 3 December 1979) is a New Zealand-British singer, songwriter, record producer and actor. He is the eldest brother of fellow singers Natasha Bedingfield and Nikola Rachelle. He was a judge on '' The X Factor New Z ...
and
Natasha Bedingfield
Natasha Anne Bedingfield (born 26 November 1981) is a British singer and songwriter. Bedingfield released her debut album, '' Unwritten'', in 2004, which contained primarily up-tempo pop songs and was influenced by R&B music. It enjoyed intern ...
in their formative years leading up to their career and subsequent chart success. 2010 - Wade sings the main hook on singer
Eliza Doolittle's top ten single "
Pack Up
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" which peaked at #5 in the British pop chart behind entries from
Kylie Minogue
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and
Eminem
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.
In 2007 Wade was guest vocalist with
Take That
Take That are an English pop group formed in Manchester in 1990. The group currently consists of Gary Barlow, Howard Donald and Mark Owen. The original line-up also featured Jason Orange and Robbie Williams. Barlow is the group's lead singe ...
on their
Beautiful World Tour 2007
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A band member chose a band or musician to open the conc ...
, duetting with them on "
Relight My Fire
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", singing a mixture of the
Gnarls Barkley
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song "Crazy" and the part sung on the single version of "Relight My Fire" by
Lulu
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.
He was a support vocalist Simon Webbe's song "
Coming Around Again". He was a vocalist for the BBC Tsunami appeal song. Wade worked with
Robert Palmer as a backing singer on his TV appearances, which included an appearance on ''
Later... with Jools Holland'' and Palmer's 35 state tour of America in the fall of 1999.Wade coached
Howard Donald
Howard Paul Donald (born 28 April 1968) is an English singer, songwriter, drummer, pianist, dancer and record producer. He is a member of English pop-group Take That. Donald was also judge on the German reality talent show ''Got to Dance'' from ...
of
Take That
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in 2008. In 2009 Wade coached
Jess Stickley of
Girls Can't Catch.In 2010 he was a joint vocalist on the One Voice appeal song for the
2010 Haiti earthquake
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, "Somebody Please".
Wade enjoyed top 5 chart success dueting with Eliza Doolittle on her hit single Pack Up and has appeared with her on TV and radio shows across Europe throughout 2010 and 2011.
Wade Provided singers for the background vocal choirs for X factor in Series 4 and 5,(2007/2008) and on series 8 (2011) he joined the X factor vocal coaching team as an associate vocal coach working with the judges, Gary Barlow, Louis Walsh, Kelly Rowland, and Tulisa Contostavlos.
Series finalists he worked with were little mix, Marcus Collins, Amelia Lilly, Frankie Cocozza, Craig Colton, James Michael, Misha B, Janet Devlin, Sophie Habibis, Jonny Robinson, Sami Brookes, Kitty Brucknell, Jonjo Kerr, Jo Robinson, 2 shoes, Nu vibe, The Risk.
In 2013, Wade, along with a band named Band of Voices, auditioned for the
7th series of Cowell's other talent show
Britain's Got Talent
''Britain's Got Talent'' (often abbreviated to ''BGT'') is a televised British talent show competition, and part of the global ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell. Presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (colloquially ...
, Cowell recognised him. Band of Voices were put through to the semi-finals and performed on the first live show, despite gaining a large fanbase from the audition, the group were eliminated later that night through the public vote.
In February 2017, it was announced that Wade would star in Soul Town at
Butlins Holiday Resorts, the show will last from February till December 2017.
Notable television appearances
''The X Factor''
In 2004, Wade successfully auditioned for the
first series of ''
The X Factor
''The X Factor'' is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment. It originated in the United Kingdom, where it was devised as a replacement for ''Pop Idol'' (2001–2003 ...
'', he made it through to the judges houses stage of the competition, and was placed in the over 25s category, his potential mentor Simon Cowell did not send him through to the live shows and he was therefore eliminated. Simon later lamented to Lloyd's manager that he regretted not sending Lloyd through.
''Britain's Got Talent''
In 2013, Wade, along with a band named Band of Voices, auditioned for the
seventh series of Cowell's other talent show ''
Britain's Got Talent
''Britain's Got Talent'' (often abbreviated to ''BGT'') is a televised British talent show competition, and part of the global ''Got Talent'' franchise created by Simon Cowell. Presented by Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly (colloquially ...
'', Cowell recognised him.
Band of Voices were put through to the semi-finals and performed on the first live show, despite gaining a large fanbase from the audition, the group were eliminated later that night through the public vote.
References
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20th-century Black British male singers
British contemporary R&B singers
British performers of Christian music
Living people
Singers from London
The X Factor (British TV series) contestants
Year of birth uncertain