Research into James Arthur

James Arthur's career started towards the end of 2012 when he was noticed auditioning for the X factor. Before James Arthur's audition, the programme did a small life story on James. This is where the viewers found that he had a very rough childhood. When James was very young, his parents got divorced and had no sort of relationship throughout his life. This resorted in him getting suspended and excluded from school, and eventually led to living rough on occasion. He said that initially, music was just a coping mechanism in order to deal with the situation of his family. BY auditioning on the X factor, his parents spoke for the first time in the past 20 years, so not only was it good for his career to audition, but it was great for his personal life.

Throughout the X factor, James was the definite favourite, as he had a voice, and a talent to make song adaptations that no one had seen before. He covered many different artists, most of which were girls. He made such good covers of these girl artist songs that no one ever pulled him up for it. The unexpected adaptations he made included  an acoustic version of Tulisa's 'Young' and adding dub step to Adele's 'Hometown Glory'. I believe these skills helped the public and the judges root for him, as he was a new refreshing artist to help represent the show.

Since winning the X Factor in 2012, James Arthur has rather quickly (compared to his predecessors) created and produced an original album through SyCo, the company that signed him as a result of winning the X Factor - part of his £1million winning deal.

The original album has already featured a #1 single in 'You're nobody 'till somebody loves you'. James Arthur has probably claimed the quickest amount of success out of an of the earlier X factor winners, and is now reaping the rewards by being asked to go on many chat show and panel shows, and is often seen attending awards ceremonies with one of his best friends Rita Ora.

One artist that James Arthur can be compared to is James Morrison. Both James Morrison and James Arthur come from the same sort of original sounds, and each bring something unique to the type of guitar/music based chart songs they produce.

In James Morrison's song with Nelly Furtado, A big focus at the start, and at the end sequence with the fire focuses on James Morrison's musicianship, something that is a lost art within the charts now, and something that both Arthur and Morrison seem keen to keep in their videos.

James Arthur still shows the necessity of musicianship in his newest single of the original album as well.

In this video, the first thing we see James walking to is his band, and the majority of the performance in this song is performed on the stage with the band. Close ups on different instruments and musicians also helps to show how James is keen to focus on the musicianship of the song, and how he still wishes to show the different elements in which make up his songs.