Kevin Simm was born in Leyland Lancashire in 1980. He grew up listening to artists such as Diana Ross , Marvin Gaye, Stevie wonder and Michael Jackson to name a few. Kevin started singing at the age of 16 when he jokingly auditioned for his schools Christmas concert. After his performance Kevin realised he wanted more of this and after years of not knowing where his life would lead he found himself most comfortable behind a microphone…
During the end of his season working venues in the North East, an audition was held in London for a t.v show called ‘Popstars’ promising the successful candidates a record contract and a shot at stardom. After weeks of auditions and his first experience of television cameras, Kevin made it to the final ten candidates from roughly 10,000 applicants. The programme was based on finding a mixed sex group and making them full blown pop stars, no one could of known the scale of success the show would have when aired in 2000. Filmed more as a fly on the wall documentary this show would be the catalyst for shows like ‘pop idol’ and ‘the x factor’ , with millions of viewers every week the group that were picked by the judges not the public were guaranteed huge stardom. Kevin was not picked and his chance of chart success looked grim… During the period of the last ten, Kevin became close with his fellow wannabes and as a five decided to use the shows popularity as a springboard to create their own band, they got together and wrote an album worth of songs, found a manager and visited various major labels finally deciding on v2 who offered the artistic freedom they wanted to make their own album. Their first single charted at number 5 (u.k charts) with their 3rd making number 1 winning a brit award and an ivor novella to name a few, it sold over 150,000 copies in its first week of release and spring-boarded their debut album which went double platinum. They went on to have over 8 top 10 singles and three albums before splitting early 2007.
During that time and since Kevin has been in the studio working on his own material, a mixture of soul, pop, amongst other things, bringing himself to the forefront and showing what he as an individual artist has to offer, resulting in his solo album released in japan late 2008. He also filmed his first solo video for his debut single 'brand new' in Kingston Jamaica. This is a brand new start for one of the u.k's most promising young artists.
Kevin is also available for private functions, corporate events, weddings etc. Kevin performs a terrific mixture of pop, soul and modern day favourties fully self contained with his own P.A system.
