Martin Rycroft is a pop music

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

 singer, actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 and dancer.

Biography

Rycroft grew up in the town of Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Pembroke, Pembrokeshire

Pembroke is an historic settlement and former county town of Pembrokeshire in west Wales. The town and the county derive their name from that of the cantref of Penfro: Pen = "head" or "end", and bro = "region", "country", "land", and so it means essentially "Land's End".-History:The main point of...

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In 2003 Martin became a member of the British pop group the Fast Food Rockers

Fast Food Rockers

The Fast Food Rockers were a British pop group known for their novelty music. The band claim to have met at a fast-food convention in Folkestone.-Career:...

. The Band had two Top 10 hits with the Fast Food Song written by Mike Stock and Sandy Rass

Sandy Rass

Sandy Rass is a British songwriter/producer of Fast Food Rockers and others, and a singer, dancer and actor, and a psychology graduate and statistician, achieving First Class Honours for his BSc, and being awarded the highest grade of Distinction for his MSc, graduating top in both, and receiving...

 and Say Cheese (Smile Please) released on independent record label, Better The Devil Records. The Fast Food Rockers split in 2004 and are now working on their own individual projects.

In 2006 Martin was involved in an E4/Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 TV show called "Boys will be Girls", a six week show that aired from April 2006. The aim of the show was to try to pass off a bunch of male ex pop-band members as a brand new girl band. Over the course of the show, the trio known as The Honeytraps

The Honeytraps

The Honeytraps was the 'girl band' featured in the 2006 reality TV show Boys Will Be Girls, aired on E4.The programme starting by auditioning male singers for a brand new band, to be managed by Olivier Behzadi - ex - Head of A&R Sony Music Intl and Nathan Moore, ex-lead singer of Brother Beyond...

 were shown having lessons in how to be feminine and recorded a download single, a cover of A Flock of Seagulls

A Flock of Seagulls

A Flock of Seagulls are an English New Wave band originally formed by brothers Michael "Mike" Score and Alister "Ali" James Score , with Frank Maudsley , Michael Kuby , H.J...

' 1982 hit "Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)

Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)

"Wishing " is a 1982 New Wave song by A Flock of Seagulls, appearing as the opening performance on their second album Listen. Its wistful, bleak lyrics on separation are built on a driving rhythm backed by a heavy Wall of Sound-styled layer of synthesizer padding...

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2008 saw a move to the US and a return to the ballroom as a teacher and competitor.

External links

• Martin Official site