Yvie Burnett
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Yvie Burnett is a Scottish
mezzosoprano singer and vocal coach
, best known for her work with Simon Cowell
on television shows The X Factor
and Britain's Got Talent
.
, Aberdeenshire from 1975 to 1981.
, Glyndebourne
, Opera North
, De Nederlandse Opera
and Opera De Nantes.
techniques, and has worked with: Gary Lightbody
from Snow Patrol
, Danny McNamara
from Embrace, Murph from The Wombats, and The Saturdays
.
She joined The X Factor in series 2 as Louis Walsh
's vocal coach and coached Shayne Ward
to success as the series winner. In 2005, as well as working with Louis with groups, and also coached Cowell and Sharon Osbourne
's acts. She subsequently coached Leona Lewis
in 2006. She was initially not rehired for the 2010 series, but then replaced the new coaches after they were sacked by Cowell, to coach his groups.
Burnett became the vocal coach on the first three series of Britain's Got Talent
, and the vocal coach on America's Got Talent
(Series 4 and 5). She coached Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts
in 2007, and contestants Faryl Smith
and Andrew Johnston
in 2008. She also worked with Susan Boyle
on I Dreamed A Dream - The Susan Boyle Story and also featured in the show. In Summer 2010, while working in Los Angeles
on America's Got Talent, she started working with 10 year old singer, Jackie Evancho
, and helped Jackie make her first recordings for Sony Music.
Having worked on the BBC series Last Choir Standing
, at the beginning of 2009, Burnett was asked by Andrew Lloyd-Webber to work with him on the BBC TV show, Eurovision: Your Country Needs You, to select an artist to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest
in Moscow
. Lloyd-Webber was so impressed with Yvie's work with the singers on the show, that he asked her to work with the singers in Love Never Dies, his follow-up to Phantom Of The Opera
. Burnett is still the Vocal Coach for the London show.
Yvie just completed her second stint as vocal coach on America's Got Talent and for the second year in a row, a singer won the contest. This year there were three singers out of the four acts in the show's finale. Michaell Grimm won the contest, but Yvie's experience as an opera singer meant that 10 year old Jackie Evancho and Prince Poppycock made a great impression.
Scottish people
The Scottish people , or Scots, are a nation and ethnic group native to Scotland. Historically they emerged from an amalgamation of the Picts and Gaels, incorporating neighbouring Britons to the south as well as invading Germanic peoples such as the Anglo-Saxons and the Norse.In modern use,...
mezzosoprano singer and vocal coach
Vocal coach
A vocal coach is a music teacher who instructs singers on how to improve their singing technique, take care of and develop their voice, and prepare for the performance of a song or other work. Vocal coaches may give private music lessons to singers, or they may coach singers who are rehearsing on...
, best known for her work with Simon Cowell
Simon Cowell
Simon Phillip Cowell is an English A&R executive, television producer, entrepreneur, and television personality. He is known in the United Kingdom and United States for his role as a talent judge on TV shows such as Pop Idol, The X Factor, Britain's Got Talent and American Idol...
on television shows The X Factor
The X Factor (UK)
The X Factor is a British television music competition to find new singing talent. Created by Simon Cowell, it began in September 2004 and is contested by aspiring singers drawn from public auditions. It is the originator of the international X Factor franchise. The seven series of the show to date...
and Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
.
Education
Burnett attended Ellon AcademyEllon Academy
Ellon Academy is a secondary comprehensive school in the Aberdeenshire town of Ellon.-History:Founded as Ellon Public School, the building was opened at 10:00AM, on 22 May 1876. It was responsible for the education of both primary and secondary students, and it wasn't until 1962 that the two were...
, Aberdeenshire from 1975 to 1981.
Singing career
Burnett trained as an operatic mezzosoprano, and sung professionally with the Welsh National OperaWelsh National Opera
Welsh National Opera is an opera company founded in Cardiff, Wales in 1943. The WNO tours Wales, the United Kingdom and the rest of the world extensively. Annually, it gives more than 120 performances of eight main stage operas to a combined audience of around 150,000 people...
, Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne
Glyndebourne is a country house, thought to be about six hundred years old, located near Lewes in East Sussex, England. It is also the site of an opera house which, with the exception of its closing during the Second World War, for a few immediate post-war years, and in 1993 during the...
, Opera North
Opera North
Opera North is an English opera company based in Leeds. The company's home theatre is the Leeds Grand Theatre, but it also presents regular seasons in several other cities, at the Theatre Royal, Nottingham, the Lowry Centre, Salford Quays and the Theatre Royal, Newcastle...
, De Nederlandse Opera
De Nederlandse Opera
De Nederlandse Opera , in Amsterdam, is a Dutch opera company based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. Its present home base is the Het Muziektheater, a modern building designed by Cees Dam which opened in 1986....
and Opera De Nantes.
Vocal coach
Burnett uses Estill Voice TrainingEstill Voice Training
Estill Voice Training is a programme for developing vocal skills based on deconstructing the process of vocal production into control of specific structures in the vocal mechanism...
techniques, and has worked with: Gary Lightbody
Gary Lightbody
Gary Lightbody is an Northern Irish musician and songwriter best known as the lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Snow Patrol.- Early life :...
from Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol
Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...
, Danny McNamara
Danny McNamara
Danny McNamara is the lead singer of English band Embrace.-Early years:...
from Embrace, Murph from The Wombats, and The Saturdays
The Saturdays
The Saturdays are a British and Irish pop girl group based in London, United Kingdom. The group consists of five members Una Healy, Mollie King, Frankie Sandford, Vanessa White and Rochelle Wiseman. In 2007 the band were formed through Fascination Records which gave them an instant record deal with...
.
She joined The X Factor in series 2 as Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh
Louis Walsh is an Irish music manager and judge on the British television talent show The X Factor.-Band manager:...
's vocal coach and coached Shayne Ward
Shayne Ward
Shayne Thomas Ward is an English pop singer who rose to fame as the winner of second series of The X Factor. He has sold over 3 million records worldwide and has had number one albums and singles in 9 countries.During The X Factor competition, Ward was mentored by manager Louis Walsh...
to success as the series winner. In 2005, as well as working with Louis with groups, and also coached Cowell and Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Osbourne
Sharon Rachel Osbourne is an English television host, author, music manager, businesswoman and promoter as well as the wife of heavy metal singer-songwriter Ozzy Osbourne....
's acts. She subsequently coached Leona Lewis
Leona Lewis
Leona Louise Lewis is a British singer and songwriter. Lewis first came to prominence in 2006 when she won the third series of the British television series The X Factor....
in 2006. She was initially not rehired for the 2010 series, but then replaced the new coaches after they were sacked by Cowell, to coach his groups.
Burnett became the vocal coach on the first three series of Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent
Britain's Got Talent is a British television talent show competition which started in June 2007 and originated from the Got Talent series. The show is produced by FremantleMedia's TalkbackThames and Simon Cowell's production company SYCOtv. The show is broadcast on ITV in Britain and TV3 in Ireland...
, and the vocal coach on America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent
America's Got Talent is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of...
(Series 4 and 5). She coached Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts
Paul Potts
Paul Robert Potts is an English pop opera tenor who won the first series of ITV's Britain's Got Talent in 2007, singing an operatic aria, "Nessun dorma" from Puccini's "Turandot". As a singer of operatic music, Potts recorded the album One Chance, which went to #1 in nine countries...
in 2007, and contestants Faryl Smith
Faryl Smith
Faryl Smith is a British teen mezzo-soprano who rose to fame after auditioning for the second series of the ITV television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2008. She received praise throughout the competition, and although she was the favourite to win after the second round, she finished...
and Andrew Johnston
Andrew Johnston (singer)
Andrew Johnston is a British singer who rose to fame when he appeared as a boy soprano on the second series of the British television talent show Britain's Got Talent in 2008. Although he did not win the series, he received a contract to record on the SyCo Music label owned by the Britain's Got...
in 2008. She also worked with Susan Boyle
Susan Boyle
Susan Magdalane Boyle is a Scottish singer who came to international public attention when she appeared as a contestant on the TV programme Britain's Got Talent on 11 April 2009, singing "I Dreamed a Dream" from ...
on I Dreamed A Dream - The Susan Boyle Story and also featured in the show. In Summer 2010, while working in Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
on America's Got Talent, she started working with 10 year old singer, Jackie Evancho
Jackie Evancho
Jacqueline Marie "Jackie" Evancho is an American child singer described as a classical crossover artist. After entering some talent competitions, issuing an independent album, Prelude to a Dream, and attracting interest on YouTube, she gained wider popularity in 2010 with her performances in the...
, and helped Jackie make her first recordings for Sony Music.
Having worked on the BBC series Last Choir Standing
Last Choir Standing
Last Choir Standing was a 2008 talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. Broadcast on BBC One in July and August 2008, the series saw amateur choirs competing each week to be the 'last choir standing'....
, at the beginning of 2009, Burnett was asked by Andrew Lloyd-Webber to work with him on the BBC TV show, Eurovision: Your Country Needs You, to select an artist to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest
Eurovision Song Contest
The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...
. Lloyd-Webber was so impressed with Yvie's work with the singers on the show, that he asked her to work with the singers in Love Never Dies, his follow-up to Phantom Of The Opera
The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
. Burnett is still the Vocal Coach for the London show.
Yvie just completed her second stint as vocal coach on America's Got Talent and for the second year in a row, a singer won the contest. This year there were three singers out of the four acts in the show's finale. Michaell Grimm won the contest, but Yvie's experience as an opera singer meant that 10 year old Jackie Evancho and Prince Poppycock made a great impression.