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MK singer gigging around the globe after Eurovision fame
The world is not enough for Holly
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olly Brewer has received a fast-track lesson in the highs and lows of the music industry since bursting onto the national scene by singing at the celebrity wedding of Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan two years ago. The 22-year-old Milton Keynes songstress was given four yesses by Simon Cowell and the rest of the judges on The X Factor, only to be left heartbroken when she was chewed up and spat out by the hit ITV show just days later. Then in January this year she had the ecstasy of being shortlisted as one of six finalists to represent the UK at the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Holly brilliantly performed the original song I Wish I Loved
Photos courtesy of the BBC, leescriven.com and hollybrewer.co.uk You More at the Hammersmith Apollo on BBC2’s Eurovision ‘You Decide’ show to a live TV audience of millions. But she was pipped to the winning post by Lucie Jones, who will now represent the UK at Eurovision in Kiev next month. Celebrate:MK caught up with Holly over a Latte in Pret at intu Milton Keynes (a soya Latte with vanilla, in Holly’s case), to get the inside track on her whirlwind rise to fame. And there was only one place to start – Eurovision. “I’ve been gigging regularly for the last three years and a girl I had met in the industry put my name forward to the Eurovision people,” she explained. “After four auditions and lots of meetings I was told on Christmas Eve that I had got it,
so it was the best Christmas present ever! “The people of Milton Keynes really backed me throughout, they are so amazing and my social media just went crazy. “I’ve gigged in MK for years, since I was 13, so it’s really nice that when a big opportunity comes up the local public all support you. “I struggle with that stuff a little bit as I get anxious about replying, and the more messages that come in the more the pressure builds. “I was so nervous as I was first on stage but I gave 110% and I knew I couldn’t have physically given any more – I was exhausted by the end! “I’m really competitive so there was a part of me that would have loved to have won, but I’ve got that clip for life now, live on BBC2, so that’s
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