Mike Christie (singer)

For the former ice hockey player, see Mike Christie (ice hockey).

G4 Last Concert

Michael Phillip Christie (born 21 April 1981 in Redhill, Surrey) is a baritone singer and composer, formally in the British vocal quartet G4. The other band members were Jonathan Ansell, Matthew Stiff, and Ben Thapa.

Mike has been singing as long as he can remember. In fact, he started singing at the age of 8 when he was a chorister for five years, during which time he appeared in the movie Four Weddings and a Funeral and sang on various soundtracks including The Browning Version and The Ref. He won the solo singing category at the Beckenham Festival in 1997 and the Surrey Young Male Singer competition in 2001.

Mike studied music for four years at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he gained a scholarship and a bachelor of music honours degree. In 2004 at the same time as graduating Mike auditioned as a quarter of the vocal group G4 on the first ever series of the hit TV show The X Factor and this was to change his life forever. Four friends studying together ended up reaching the final of the live shows from 50,000 applicants.

G4 subsequently released three albums, which sold 1.5 million in the UK. Their debut album sold over 245,000 in its first week alone and was the fastest selling album of the year in the UK. They also released a Live at The Royal Albert Hall DVD, an autobiographical book G4: Our Way and completed five sell-out tours across the UK and Ireland, including a Cathedral Tour where they sang acoustically. Other G4 highlights included collaborating with Lesley Garrett, Robin Gibb, Stephen Gately and Sir Cliff Richard, performing in the The Royal Albert Hall more than a dozen times, and having the rollercoaster ride G-Force named after them, which they opened at Drayton Manor Theme Park. After three fantastic years together as a group, they decided to disband to enable them to have more time to pursue their own individual dreams.

Over the past five years Mike has made nearly one hundred TV appearances including Through The Keyhole, Blue Peter, This Morning - twelve times, The South Bank Show and Friday Night with Jonathan Ross. Recently Mike raised over £9,000 for charity by running the London Marathon and the Great South Run for Bowel Cancer UK, a charity close to his heart.

Currently Mike is singing, teaching, composing and performing. He is putting together a solo singer-songwriter album, consisting entirely of his own songs which he has written over the past few years. It will be available to buy from this website in December 2009. As well as the pop songs he writes, Mike is writing an opera with a self-penned story and libretto inspired by a discovery he made in his family tree.

G4 Highlights

   * 3 G4 albums released (1.5 million sold in the UK)
   * 5 sell-out UK tours (venues include Royal Albert Hall, The Brighton Centre, Birmingham NEC & The Belfast Odyssey)
   * Collaborations with Lesley Garrett, Stephen Gately, Robin Gibb & Sir Cliff Richard
   * Performed with Robin Gibb for ITV's 50th Anniversary
   * Featured on Cliff Richard album alongside Elton John, Dionne Warwick & Sarah Brightman
   * Live at the Royal Albert Hall DVD (45,000 sold)
   * 12 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall
   * “G4: Our Way” biographic book published by Virgin Books
   * Rollercoaster ride “G-Force” at Drayton Manor Theme Park named after & opened by G4
   * Celebrity Hairstyle of the Year Award 2004
   * Filming in Ghana for SOS Children's charity to help raise awareness of HIV
   * Performed at the American Embassy alongside James Brown
   * Recorded the theme for The Lord Mayor's Show (BBC1)
   * G4: Ben Thapa, Jonathan Ansell, Matt Stiff & Mike Christie

External links

• Official Website
• Official MySpace