Biography

David Beresford Grant MBE (born 8 August 1956) is an English singer and vocal coach. Grant became famous in the early 1980s as a member of UK soul/funk duo Linx, whose biggest hit was "Intuition" in 1981. He began a solo career in 1983 with the top 40 hit "Stop and Go". Further hits included "Watching You Watching Me" and two duets with Jaki Graham – "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love", which reached number five in 1985, and the Todd Rundgren-penned "Mated", which made number 20 later that year. He has also worked as a session singer for artists including Diana Ross, Rick Astley and Lighthouse Family. David has become well known, along with his wife Carrie, as vocal coach on Pop Idol and judge/vocal coach on Fame Academy and its spin-off Comic Relief Does Fame Academy. In addition, he has worked with some of the UK's top pop acts including the Spice Girls, Take That, S Club, and more recently Will Young, Atomic Kitten, Melanie C, Lemar, Charlotte Church, Joss Stone, Geri Halliwell and Julian Perretta. He also appeared regularly as a panellist on the topical debate show The Wright Stuff. In 2006, he appeared in the four-part series The Sound of Musicals. In September 2006 he appeared on MasterChef. At the start of 2008 David Grant sat as a judge on The One and Only, where he again worked alongside Carrie.