T&T so­ca artiste Olatun­ji Year­wood has made it through to the next round of the Unit­ed King­dom’s X Fac­tor show af­ter de­liv­er­ing a very en­er­getic per­for­mance of his hit “Body­line” on one of the UK’s main com­pet­i­tive stages yes­ter­day.

Year­wood, 33, who was de­scribed as a “su­per­star” and who won the So­ca Groovy Monarch/In­ter­na­tion­al So­ca Monarch in 2015, wowed the judges – Si­mon Cow­ell, Louis Tom­lin­son, Rob­bie Williams and his wife Ay­da Field – with his en­er­getic per­for­mance, which he did in the com­pa­ny of two dancers.

In the in­tro video lead­ing up to his au­di­tion, Year­wood said he loves the UK and has been “com­ing up and down” since he was 15 years old as he has fam­i­ly there. He in­di­cat­ed that he thought the X Fac­tor was the best stage to pro­mote so­ca mu­sic world­wide. Year­wood end­ed the brief video clip­ping with his fa­mous “Ta­d­ow” chant.

Giv­ing a “foot­work” teas­er as he walked out on stage, Year­wood, dressed in a mus­tard-coloured jack­et suit, hyped up the crowd by get­ting them to chant af­ter him “Whoa…whoa.”

When Body­line start­ed play­ing, Year­wood was joined on­stage by the two fe­male dancers, who al­so gave ex­u­ber­at­ing dance moves that shook their en­tire body­line.

Year­wood end­ed his per­for­mance with an “I love you” and re­ceived a stand­ing ova­tion.

Cow­ell, in de­liv­er­ing the last need­ed vote, said: “It’s ex­act­ly the kind of act I love find­ing on a show like this…you have 4,500 yeses.”

Year­wood’s suc­cess at this first round, which aired live at about 3 pm lo­cal time yes­ter­day, quick­ly went vi­ral on so­cial me­dia with scores of peo­ple ex­press­ing pride and wish­ing him all the best in the re­main­der of the com­pe­ti­tion.