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Friday, April 4, 2025

Olatunji moves on again in X Factor UK

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Sharlene Rampersad
2378 days ago
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Soca artistes Kes and Olatunji perform during the Soca Republic fete at the Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, last Sunday.

Soca artistes Kes and Olatunji perform during the Soca Republic fete at the Brian Lara Stadium, Tarouba, last Sunday.

RISHI RAGOONATH

So­ca artiste Olatun­ji Year­wood has ad­vanced to yet an­oth­er stage of the X Fac­tor UK com­pe­ti­tion, earn­ing the first seat on the show’s Six Chair Chal­lenge in the lat­est episode.

This time, Year­wood thrilled with his per­for­mance of Lou Be­ga’s Mam­bo Num­ber Five.

Per­form­ing first in the line-up, Olatun­ji, who first wowed the judges dur­ing the au­di­tions with his song Body­line, gave a vi­brant per­for­mance that had au­di­ence mem­bers and judges alike danc­ing along. Fling­ing off his top hat, he danced across the stage and even­tu­al­ly shook his hair loose, much to the de­light of the au­di­ence.

The 32-year-old was told by judge Adya Williams, “I would like you to take seat #1 please,” to the loud cheers of the au­di­ence.

The Six Chair Chal­lenge re­places the tra­di­tion­al boot camp au­di­tion stage of the com­pe­ti­tion and the con­tes­tants are split in­to four dif­fer­ent cat­e­gories, each with a judge as­signed as a men­tor.

Williams is the men­tor of the group of con­tes­tants that Olatun­ji is in.

Judge Si­mon Cow­ell, com­ment­ing on Olatun­ji’s per­for­mance, said, “I think this com­pe­ti­tion needs peo­ple like you. If it was me there would no hes­i­ta­tion, you would be tak­ing one of those chairs.”


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