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SIMON J BAILEY
UK Singer/Songwriter/Performing Artist Biography
SIMON J BAILEY is the one to watch out for………..
From his Slick dance moves to his unique soulful voice, he’s a born performer !
 SIMON J BAILEY is from south London but originally born on the south coast of the UK.
Simon showed signs of interest in music at the age of eleven, winning a dancing a talent competition as Michael Jackson dacing to ‘Billie Jean.'
From there his taste of performing had come to light. Simon started singing at the age of 14 and by the age of 20 he was living up in London perusing his music career. Simon has been writing songs for 10 years now, but as any writer knows the more life experience you have the better the songwriter you become.
You can see and hear that through all of Simon’s songs , they are soulful, heart warming and the up-tempo ones…dance floor fillers!! Simon has and still is singing and dancing every day. He has been going to Pineapple Dance Studios for over 6 years now training in Lockin, Poppin, Robotics, Street Jazz and Fusion funk which is run by Rudeye Dance agency.
Stuart Bishop from Rudeye choreographed Simon’s video clip which you can see on his website www.simonjbailey.co.uk. You can see his stage performance would be one not to miss. There are few artists who can dance and sing and Simon is one of those few!
Simon has sung live from the age of 20. He trained with top singing coach Robert Bicknell from the year 2000 to 2005 and is currently now with legend Claudia Van Burgen.
Simon has sung his own material at many live performances around the Capital.
Last summer in 2006 Simon was the main attraction at Splash Fm’s summer festival down in Worthing, where he sang 3 of his own tracks live.
One of the songs was “BRING BACK THE LOVE” which Simon had just finished writing and recording. Simon had written this song in reaction to World troubles, the Iraq war, Afghanistan situation, the 9/11 and last year the 7/7. The song has been performed at many events and had standing ovations. The song was played on the BFBS ( British Forces Broadcasting Services) to the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Simon teamed up with London based gospel choir Urban Voices to record the track. And they too sung live with Simon at some of the events. The launch party for the single “BRING BACK THE LOVE” was a huge success.
Donations going to The British Red Cross. You can still download the song from Simon’s website.
Simon followed on to do a video for the song with The Electric Pig company who have worked on a number of films including Harry Potter and Gladiator.
The video was shot in one London’s A1 listed buildings in Hampstead. Simon created the original story board from which the video was filmed. The video is now on YouTube under BRING BACK THE LOVE and his website. At Christmas 2006 Simon had a local community honours award’s ceremony named after his song Bringing Back the Love Awards. The ceremony was to honour local people who have contributed to the well being of there neighbours.
Simon and the gospel choir sang at the event in Clapham South London.
Since then, Simon has been back in the studio finishing his debut album. Simon has written over 200 hundred songs and is currently in the process of signing a publishing deal.
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