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Yvie Burnett (born 8 August 1963), is a Scottish

The X Factor and Britain's Got Talent, The Big Reunion The Voice UK and BBC's Let It Shine
.

Education

Burnett attended Ellon Academy, Aberdeenshire, the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and The National Opera Studio.

Singing career

Burnett trained as an operatic

De Nederlandse Opera and Opera De Nantes.[1]

Vocal coach

Burnett has developed her own vocal training technique having started off studying at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama, the Guildhall School of Music & Dram and the National Opera Studio. She also gained an ARCM from the Royal Academy of Music.[2] She has worked with singers as varied as Sarah Brightman, Susan Boyle, Gary Lightbody from Snow Patrol, Sam Smith, and Nicole Scherzinger,.[3]

She joined The X Factor in series 2 as Louis Walsh's vocal coach and coached Shayne Ward to success as the series winner. In 2005, as well as working with Louis with groups. In 2006 she became the sole vocal coach on the show and also coached Cowell and Sharon Osbourne's acts.[4] She subsequently coached Leona Lewis in 2006.[5] She was initially not rehired for the 2010 series,[6] but then replaced the new coaches after they were sacked by Cowell, to coach his groups.[citation needed]

Burnett became the vocal coach on the first three series of Britain's Got Talent, and the vocal coach on America's Got Talent (Series 4 and 5). She coached Britain's Got Talent winner Paul Potts in 2007, and contestants Faryl Smith and Andrew Johnston in 2008.[7] She also worked with Susan Boyle on several of her albums and is featured in the TV specials I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Story (2009) and Susan Boyle: An Unlikely Superstar (2011).[citation needed] In Summer 2010, while working in Los Angeles on America's Got Talent, she started working with 10-year-old singer, Jackie Evancho, and is credited as a vocal consultant on Evancho's first recordings for Sony Music.[8]

Having worked on the BBC series

Eurovision: Your Country Needs You, to select an artist to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest in Moscow. Lloyd-Webber was so impressed with Burnett's work with the singers on the show, that he asked her to work with the singers in Love Never Dies, his follow-up to Phantom of the Opera. Burnett later continued as vocal coach for the London show.[citation needed
]

Burnett completed a second stint as vocal coach on the 2010

Landau Eugene Murphy
.

When the BBC launched

Superstar show and second on the Canadian show Over the Rainbow on CBC.[9]

Yvie went on to work with all of the Principal singers in the Arena Production of Jesus Christ Superstar which opened at The O2 Arena in London on Friday 21 September 2012. In the show programme Chris Moyles credits Yvie and former X Factor Musical Director, Nigel Wright, with introducing him to Andrew and convincing him to do the role having worked with him five and a half years previously on The X Factor: Battle of the Stars.

In 2013, Yvie has been working on the

Your Face Sounds Familiar
.

In 2014 Yvie worked on Series 3 & Series 4 of The Voice UK and worked in the US on Broadway 4D. She also enjoyed working with Sam Smith, Hannah Reid of London Grammar and Chloe Howl during the year as well as doing her TV work. Yvie started writing a weekly column for the YL Magazine of Aberdeen's Press & Journal newspaper.

Yvie became a judge in 2015 when she was one of the three judges on the prestigious BBC Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year 2015, which was held at Nottingham's Albert Hall. She was also a judge on BBC Radio Ulster's School Choir of the Year 2015.

In 2015, she was a member of the British jury in the Eurovision Song Contest 2015.

Yvie returned to performing when she was asked by the sponsors of the Scottish Grand Nation to sing the song "Caledonia" at the start of the event in April 2016.

She also performed her version of the song on STV the evening before the race and released the song as a single.

Yvie writes a weekly column for her hometown newspaper, the Press & Journal and it is published every Saturday in their YL Magazine.

Yvie published her first book "Yes, You Can Sing" on September 7, 2017, which is a mixture of singing tips and stories of her work as singer and a vocal coach.

She traveled to Mumbai in 2019 to speak at the All About Music conference and continues to tour the world with her singing clients.

References

  1. ^ Testimonials Yvie Burnett Archived 15 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine
  2. OCLC 614655655
    . Retrieved 28 October 2010.
  3. ^ Singing Teachers Worldwide Community Archived 24 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
  4. ^ Voice coach sounds out the X Factor stars. The Times (subscription required)
  5. ^ The transformation of Leona Lewis. The Times (subscription required)
  6. ^ Simon Cowell sacks Scots X Factor voice coach Yvie Burnett from show Daily Record, 25 September 2010
  7. ^ Young 'Talent' star gets secret coaching Digital Spy, 11 May 2008
  8. Sony Music Entertainment
    .
  9. ^ @yvieburnett / Twitter, 1 October 2012 [1]

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