Education
Smith became better known after appearing on the third series of in 2009 and finished in third place behind singer Susan Boyle and winning dance troupe Diversity. He studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
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Smith became better known after appearing on the third series of in 2009 and finished in third place behind singer Susan Boyle and winning dance troupe Diversity. He studied at the Birmingham Conservatoire.
He is also known by his stage name. He has made guest appearances alongside artists such as Tony Hadley (Spandau Ballet), Gwen Dickey (Rose Royce) and Hamish Stuart (Average White Band), and has performed on national television together with Chris Rea, M People, and Dina Carroll. In 2003, he released a solo album, Chilled 2 the Sax, which features Acker Bilk, Dina Carroll, and Ola Onabule.
Some of his tracks also appear in the multi-platinum selling The Classic Chillout album series from Sony Music.
Smith"s father was a music teacher and had the opportunity to try out a lot of different instruments. He started playing the clarinet, but later switched to the saxophone.
He studied the mechanics of the bassoon at the Birmingham Conservatoire but began concentrating on the sax thereafter. Smith has been playing the saxophone for 20 years and cites some of his influences to be Kenny G, David Sanborn, Candy Dulfer, and Kirk Whalum.
He toured with The Stylistics in 2010 and with Diversity in 2012 on their Digitized tour.
On 18 April 2009, during the third series of, Smith entered with his saxophone. A standing ovation occurred after Smith"s performance. During the judges" remarks, Simon Cowell stated, "..there could be something special about you Julian".
With the public voting the fate of all the contestants, Smith advanced to the semi-final round of competition which took place on 28 May 2009.
In the final on 30 May, Smith placed third with 16.4% of nearly 4 million votes.
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