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Yvie just completed her 2nd stint as vocal coach on America's Got Talent and for the 2nd year in a row, a singer won the contest. This year there were three singers out of the four acts in the show's finale. Michaell Grimm won the contest, but Yvie's experience as an opera singer meant that 10 year old Jackie Evancho and Prince Poppycock made a great impression. |
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Yvie was told that she had been replaced as vocal coach on XFactor Series 7 in September, but was recalled to the show by the end of the month. |
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Revision as of 23:49, 9 October 2010
Yvie Burnett (born 8 August, 1968), is a Scottish mezzosoprano singer and vocal coach, best known for her work with Simon Cowell on television series The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent.
Singer
Burnett attended Ellon Academy, Aberdeenshire from 1975 to 1981. She then trained as an operatic mezzosoprano, and sung professionally with the Welsh National Opera, Glyndebourne, Opera North, De Nederlandse Opera and Opera De Nantes.[1]
Vocal coach
Burnett specialises in the Estill Vocal Technique, and has worked with: Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol; Danny McNamara from Embrace; Murph from The Wombats;[2] and The Saturdays.
She joined The X Factor in Series 2 as Louis Walsh's vocal coach and coached Shayne Ward to success as the series winner. In 2005, as well as working with Louis with groups, and also coached Cowell and Sharon Osbourne's acts.[3] She subsequently coached Leona Lewis in 2006.[4] She was initially not rehired for the 2010 series,[5] but then replaced the new coaches after they were sacked by Cowell, to coach his groups.[6]
Burnett became the vocal coach on the first three series of Britain's Got Talent, and the vocal coach on America's Got Talent (Series 4 & 5). She coached winner Paul Potts in 2007, and Britain's Got Talent contestants Faryl Smith and Andrew Johnston in 2008.[7] She also worked with Susan Boyle on "I Dreamed A Dream - The Susan Boyle Story" and she was also featured in the show.[8] In the Summer of 2010, while working in Los Angeles on America's Got Talent, she started working with 10 year old singer, Jackie Evancho, and is helping Jackie make her first recordings for Sony Music.
Having worked on the BBC series' Last Choir Standing, at the beginning of 2009, Burnett was asked by Andrew Lloyd-Webber to work with him on the BBC TV show, "Your Country Needs You", to select an artist to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. Lloyd-Webber was so impressed with Yvie's work with the singers on the show, that he asked her to work with the singers in Love Never Dies, his follow-up to Phantom Of The Opera. Burnett is still the Vocal Coach for the London show.
References
- ^ Yvie Burnett : Testimonials
- ^ http://www.singing-teachers.co.uk/directory/listing_output_PDF.php?id=868
- ^ Voice coach sounds out the X Factor stars - Times Online
- ^ The transformation of Leona Lewis - Times Online
- ^ Simon Cowell sacks Scots X Factor voice coach Yvie Burnett from show
- ^ http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/x_factor/3168780/Simon-Cowell-axes-X-Factor-vocal-coach.html
- ^ Reality - News - Young 'Talent' star gets secret coaching - Digital Spy
- ^ Interview with the Daily Mail:Meet Yvie Burnett, the X Factor guru who gave the Phantom his voice By Daily Mail Reporter, 5th March 2010
Yvie just completed her 2nd stint as vocal coach on America's Got Talent and for the 2nd year in a row, a singer won the contest. This year there were three singers out of the four acts in the show's finale. Michaell Grimm won the contest, but Yvie's experience as an opera singer meant that 10 year old Jackie Evancho and Prince Poppycock made a great impression.
Yvie was told that she had been replaced as vocal coach on XFactor Series 7 in September, but was recalled to the show by the end of the month.
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