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23 Aug 2004 >> This is the Westlife 23 Aug 2004 >> This is the Westlife

10-year-old chosen out of 250,000 for chance to sing with boy band

A TEN-YEAR-OLD girl was today set to audition with chart-toppers Westlife for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to become the band・s female singer.

Nicole Mitchell, from Edinburgh, entered the competition last month after the boy band appealed for a female vocalist for their upcoming television special and Christmas album.

More than 250,000 females of all ages rang the You・re the One talent hotline and sang their favourite tunes down the telephone for the band to hear. The number was whittled down to just 100 girls last week.

Today Nicole, from Niddrie Mains Road, Craigmillar, was set to meet her idols in Manchester and sing a Shirley Bassey track to them.

Two other auditions have been held in Dublin and London, with the winner announced live on air in a TV special in September. The lucky winner will then perform a duet with the record-breaking band before joining the boys in the recording studio.

Nicole said she was "really excited" about the audition. "I am looking forward to singing to them," said the St Francis Primary School pupil. "I am a bit nervous but very excited.

"All my friends are very jealous that I am going to meet Westlife, but I actually prefer Black Eyed Peas and Beyonce."

Nicole recently won a karaoke competition at Craigmillar・s Circle of Life community arts theatre school and her mum reckons she has the ability to win the Westlife competition.

Sam Mitchell, 36, said: "I・m very proud of her. It is going to be quite an experience, singing in front of Westlife.

"She might even get to duet with them at the audition and I・ve heard that [Pop Idol judge] Simon Cowell will be there as well.

"Nicole is a very good singer and I think she can win. She only just turned ten earlier this month, so she will be one of the youngest there.

"The competition was launched by GMTV and Nicole entered straight away. She had to sing a song down the phone to a recorded machine, and she chose Kiss Me, Honey, Honey, Kiss me by Shirley Bassey.

"The organisers told us more than 250,000 women had applied when we received the phone call on Thursday night telling us Nicole was down to the last 100."

Westlife band members, Kian Egan, Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne and Mark Feehily, were due to arrive at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester this morning after yesterday・s Dublin audition. The group were expecting to be mobbed by screaming fans before they listened to the auditions this afternoon.

Nikki Barnes, 35, who runs the Circle of Life theatre school, said she was "delighted" for Nicole.

"Nicole doesn・t attend the school but we have had her singing for us before, and we all know how good she is," she said.

"We are behind her 100 per cent and her talent really should get recognised. Let・s not forget that she is only ten years old, so this is a major achievement.

In a statement, Westlife said: "The standard of entries has been really high, and the scale of the auditions looks likely to eclipse those of Pop Idol by some distance."

Source: Scotsman.com



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