Background
Born in London, Matthew William Raymond-Barker is the only son of Karen (née Jacobs) and William Francis Raymond-Barker.
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He lives in Mitcham,south-west London, works in Waterford and attended Emanuel School in Battersea.
Career
Raymond-Barker had applied initially to the British The X Factor competition, but was rejected after the first day of bootcamp. Raymond-Barker is a student, studying French and Spanish at the University of Bath and was in France for a period of six months to improve his French language skills at University of Toulouse. He was coached in the series by Véronic DiCaire.
Raymond-Barker qualified to the Final 12 after singing "Just the Way You Are" by Bruno Mars in the auditions.
During the live shows, he sang the following songs:
During the competition, he was in Bottom two only once (week 8–7 June 2011) and sang for his life against Florian Giustiniani and was saved by unanimous vote of the judges after singing "Use Somebody" from the Kings of Leon. In the finals, aired on 28 June, he beat Marina Doctorate"Amico who became runner-up.
The difference between the two was a mere 1300 votes. Maryvette Lair finished third.
The single debuted at number 94.
His first album was due for release in November 2011 on Sony Music and reportedly titled Trash, but never materialised. The single from the prospective album, was an electro-popular track called "Trash (Tout le monde jump sur le bar)". lieutenant was released 19 September 2011 but did not chart.
In 2012 he released his debut album "One" which has never reached the French Top 250 selling fewer than 50 copies in its first week.
A few months later only 500 copies have been sold.
