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"Ex-Factor" is a song by American recording artist Lauryn Hill for her debut solo studio album The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill (1998). Written and produced by Hill herself, it incorporates elements of R&B , neo soul and hip hop soul .
The song has twice reached No. 1 in the UK singles chart: the pairing of Mariah Carey and boyband Westlife, in September 2000, [5] and then again by Steve Brookstein, the first winner of The X Factor, in January 2005. [6] In 2022, an Italian version called "Impossibile" was released by German singer and TV-personality Giovanni Zarrella.
Chico first performed the song on The X Factor on 19 November 2005. It was the only time that a contestant had performed an original song during the live stages of the show, until series 9, when contestant Lucy Spraggan performed her own track, "Mountains".
The X Factor is a television music competition franchise created by British producer Simon Cowell and his company Syco Entertainment. It originated in the United Kingdom , where it was devised as a replacement for Pop Idol (2001–2003), and has been adapted in various countries.
Lucy Honour Ruby Spraggan (born 21 July 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. Spraggan was a contestant on The X Factor in 2012, and she was the first contestant in the show's history to score a Top 40 single and album before the live shows aired, with her independently released album Top Room at the Zoo.
As the X Factor song was donating some of the profits to charity, [30] the Rage Against X Factor campaign encouraged supporters also to give to charity. Alongside the group, a Justgiving page was created to raise money for homeless charity Shelter which, as of 20 December, had raised over £70,000 (approximately $110,000).
The U.K. talent show shared some previously-unreleased footage in which Styles sang "Hey, Soul Sister," before his a capella rendition of Stevie Wonder's "Isn't She Lovely"
2018. One of Tomlinson’s solo gigs included reuniting with Cowell on The X Factor UK. “[Louis] was, like, 17 when he auditioned for me,” Cowell told Us and other reporters in August. “And ...