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BIOGRAPHY OF JAMES ARTHUR

 Biography of James Arthur

James Andrew Arthur, well-known by the name James Arthur is a successful

talented young man from England. He was born on March 2nd, 1988 in
Middlesbrough Teesside, England. James it self is a singer and songwriter who is skilled at
playing instruments and guitar. He’s born with an English mother named Shirley Ashworth
who worked as a marketing and a Scottish father named Neil Arthur who worked as courier,
DJ, and drummer. James was the third child at his family with an older sister named Sian
Arthur, an older brother named Neil Arthur and a younger sister named Charlotte Arthur. He
also had two step sisters that is Jasmine and Neve Rafferty.
Before making his debut, James Arthur attended Kings Farm Primary School in
Redcar, North Yorkshire. When he was 9 years old, he moved with his mother, Shirley, and
his stepfather Ronald Rafferty to Bahrain where he studied at the British School of Bahrain
for 4 years. When they separated, 14-year-old James moved back to England with his mother
Shirley and his three siblings Sian, Jasmin and Neve lived in Coast Road, Redcar. Upon his
return, he continued his studies at Ryehills School in Redcar.
James Arthur started writing and recording songs when he was 15 as an unsigned
artist both solo and in many bands whose genre is pop-rock including: Moonlight Drive,
Emeral skye, and In early 2012, he also made his own band named James Arthur. In this
band, he recorded songs and released two EPs, firstly a soulful pop EP named Hold On as
The James Arthur Project in August 2012 in collaboration with John McGough. The tracks
were written and arranged by McGough, and mixed by Matt Wanstall with all vocals by
Arthur. Arthur also released an EP as The James Arthur Band. The band consisted of Arthur
(vocals and guitar), Jez Taylor (guitar), Chris Smalls (keyboards), Jordan Swain (drums) and
Rich Doney (bass). In 2012, the band released The EP Collection CD with nine tracks with
R&B, soul and hip hop influences, a compilation of tracks on both EPs.
 And then in the same year, 2012 he auditioned in Newcastle for the ninth
series of The X Factor, performing an acoustic rendition of judge Tulisa's "Young", before
explaining his past, including a short spell in respite foster care and time spent in flats and
bedsits after break-ups within his family. He also revealed his father and mother had hardly
spoken to each other for over 20 years, and this was a reunion of sorts for them to attend his
audition.
He sang "A Million Love Songs" at bootcamp and was chosen as one of six
contestants in the "Boys" category to advance to judges' houses. From this point onward,
Arthur was mentored by Nicole Scherzinger. After his judges' houses performance of "I Can't
Make You Love Me", he was picked as one of 12 contestants to advance to the live shows,
and one of three in the "Boys" category.
After his second live performance, Arthur suffered from an anxiety attack backstage.
While being treated at the studio, paramedics determined he did not need to go to hospital,
and he was ordered back to his hotel to rest. He later returned for the results show the
following night.
After his performance of LMFAO's "Sexy and I Know It" on the third live show on 20
October, Arthur was accused of plagiarism. His version was very similar to the rendition by
YouTube star only1Noah, which was uploaded on 9 May 2012 and had over 13 million views
at the time. However, Arthur later tweeted: "Btw doesn't everyone know I was putting a spin
on Noah's version? It had 13.something million hits! Was I supposed to state the obvious?" 
In week 7, after performing "Can't Take My Eyes Off You", Arthur was
controversially in the final showdown. He sang "Fallin'" for survival against fellow
favourite Ella Henderson, and the result went to deadlock. Scherzinger and Gary
Barlow voted to send Arthur through to the quarter-final, while Tulisa and Louis Walsh voted
to send Henderson through to the quarter-final. Resulting from the public vote Arthur was
sent through to the quarter-final, receiving 13.7% of the vote whereas Henderson received
12.1%.

Arthur won The X Factor on 9 December 2012, with 53.7% of the final vote,
against Jahméne Douglas who received 38.9%.
This made him the first-ever winner of the show to have previously been in the bottom two.
Following his victory, Arthur's winner's song, a cover of Shontelle's "Impossible",
was released as a charity single for Together for Short Lives. It became the fastest-
selling The X Factor winner's single so far, reaching 255,000 downloads within 48 hours and
over 490,000 by the end of the week. The single topped the UK Singles Chart in its first week
of release. After 11 days, it was the seventh biggest-selling debut single from any contestant
from The X Factor, with sales of 622,000. 
In its second week, the single dropped to number two, but reclaimed the number one
spot in its third week, and stayed at the top for a further week. After three weeks, it was the
fifth best-selling single of 2012 with 897,000 copies sold. After four weeks, it had sold
971,000 copies. As of 11 January 2013, the single has sold more than one million copies. The
song also peaked at number one in Ireland, two in Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland,
and eight in Slovakia. As of August 2013, the single has sold 1.2 million copies, 30,000
fewer than Alexandra Burke's version of "Hallelujah". 
To date, it has sold over 1.3 million copies in the UK, overtaking Alexandra Burke's
"Hallelujah" to become the best-selling winners single ever. In May 2013, Arthur released an
EP Undiscovered Acoustic of six acoustic songs written and recorded by John McGough with
all tracks sang by Arthur.
On 7 August 2013, Arthur announced via Twitter that his next single would be called
"You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You", which was released to UK radio stations on 9
September 2013. The song was officially released worldwide on 20 October 2013 and
debuted at number two in the UK, falling just behind Lorde's "Royals". Arthur's self-titled
debut studio album, James Arthur, was released on 4 November 2013. The album charted in
the UK at number two, behind Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2.
James Arthur released the eponymously titled debut studio album James
Arthur by Syco Music on 1 November 2013. The album included the singles "Impossible",
his X Factor winner's single, and "You're Nobody 'til Somebody Loves You", as well as
collaborations with Emeli Sandé and Chasing Grace. The album debuted at number 2 on
the UK Albums Chart, kept off the top spot by Eminem's The Marshall Mathers LP 2. It
became the 30th best-selling album of the year in the UK.
"Recovery" was released as the album's third single on 15 December 2013 and
debuted at number 19 on the UK Singles Chart. On 14 January 2014, Arthur confirmed on
Twitter that "Get Down" will be the fourth single released from his debut studio album. On 5
January 2014, Arthur began embarking on his debut headlining tour, the James Arthur Tour,
a 37-date tour around Europe.
After going through the golden path in his career, Arthur stumbled on issues regarding
the use of lyrics in his rap in 2013 which caused various problem in his career. But that
problem didn’t make Arthur stop creating any music.
In 2015, he announced that he had signed with Columbia Records and that a new
album was on the way. On Jan 8th 2016 Arthur released Back From The Edge Album. And the
title song of this album became a big hit so that the song is still popular and listened by many
people.

From the story of the James Arthur’s career journey we have understood that there is
no easy success, especially in maintaining that success, hard work and praying are needed to
deal with the various problems that come to welcome.