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Matt CardleRun For Your LifeWhen We Collide
Cardle was born in Southampton, Hampshire, to David and Jennifer Cardle (née
Horner) on 15 April 1983. He has an older brother, Dominic,
and four surrogate[clarification needed] brothers; Julian, Ben,
Rob and Tom.[4] When he was two, he was diagnosed with Wilms' tumour;
he recovered after having one of his kidneys removed. His family
lived in Bristol where he went to primary school, and at the age
of about five, they moved to Essex. He attended the independent
Stoke College in Suffolk, then the Sixth Form College in Colchester.
Cardle has had jobs as a bricklayer, postman, milkman and most
recently, painter and decorator. In 2005 he was a member of the
alternative rock / pop band Darwyn and recorded an 11 track album
When You Wake and the follow-up EP Little Sunlight in 2006,[7][8][9]
and latterly played acoustic covers with band mate Ali McMillan
in venues around Essex and Suffolk.[10] In 2009, he became the
frontman and guitarist of a rock band called Seven Summers.[11]
They released a self-titled album Seven Summers on 22 January 2010 and performed live on Sue
Marchant's BBC radio program on 8 December 2009.[12] In 2010, Cardle auditioned for the seventh series
of The X Factor, singing Amy Winehouse's "You Know I'm No Good".[13] He was mentored by Dannii Minogue and was announced the winner on 12 December
2010, receiving 44.61% of the vote. Cardle was Minogue's last remaining
act by week 8, following the elimination of Paije Richardson.[14][15]
and winning a £1 million recording contract. Cardle received the
most votes every week from week 2, being beaten only by Mary Byrne
in the first week.[16] Below is a list of Cardle's performances on The
X Factor: The week after the The X Factor final, Cardle's
winner's song "When We Collide" went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart to become the Christmas number 1 and remained
there for three consecutive weeks,[17] becoming the second biggest
selling single of 2010 with 815,000 copies.[18] The song also entered
the Irish Singles Chart at number 1 on 17 December 2010, where
it spent four consecutive weeks at the peak.[citation needed] The
song was nominated in the Best British Single category at the 2011
BRIT Awards.[19] On 15 March 2011, it was reported that Cardle has signed a record deal with Syco Music in a joint venture with Columbia Records, becoming the first The X Factor winner not to be exclusively signed to Simon Cowell's label.[20] It was also announced that Cardle has signed with Will Talbot of Modest! Management [21] On 18 August 2011, Cardle revealed that his debut album, Letters, would be released in the UK on October 17 along with five of the tracks to be included on the album. Whilst working on the album Cardle collaborated with various writers including Eg White.[22] The first single "Run
For Your Life" had its first radio play on September 5th 2011, ahead of its release on 9th
October. Released: October 2011 — Cardle, Matt (2010). Matt Cardle: My Story. Harper. ISBN 978-0007426706.
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