Scottish singer Jai McDowall got through the audition stage whilst on holiday in 2009, he later reached the bootcamp stage of the 2010 X Factor UK and then won the 2011 Britain's Got Talent winning a contract to Simon Cowell's Syco label.
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McElderry rose to fame after winning The X Factor and signing a million pound record deal with Simon Cowell's company Syco, His debut single "The Climb" debuted at number two selling over 450,000 copies in its first week of release.
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Joe McElderry, a British pop singer, has released four studio albums, five singles and ten music videos on recording labels Syco and Decca.
His pseudonym Smurfie Syco derives from The Smurfs a Belgian comic and television franchise centred on a group of small blue fictional creatures called Smurfs, There are more than one hundred 'Smurfs', whose names are based on adjectives that emphasize their characteristics, e.g. 'Jokey Smurf'.