David Grant

David Grant (born 8 August 1956, Hackney, London) is a British pop singer and celebrity vocal coach. Career Grant became famous in the early 1980s as a member of UK soul/funk duo Linx, whose biggest hit was "Intuition" in 1981. He began a solo career in 1983 with the Top 40 hit "Stop and Go". Further hits included "Watching You Watching Me" and the two duets with Jaki Graham, "Could It Be I'm Falling In Love" which reached UK #5 in 1985 and "Mated" which made UK #20 later that year . He has also worked as a session singer for artists including Diana Ross and The Lighthouse Family. Grant has become well known, along with his wife Carrie Grant, as a vocal coach on the BBC TV talent show Fame Academy and its spin-off Comic Relief does Fame Academy. In addition, in working with some of the UK's top pop acts including Take That, S Club, and more recently Will Young, Atomic Kitten, Mel C, Lemar, Charlotte Church, Joss Stone. He also appears regularly as a panelist on the Five topical debate show, The Wright Stuff. In 2006 he appeared in the four part BBC television series The Sound of Musicals, which was filmed in 2005. In September 2006 he appeared on BBC's Masterchef programme. Grant is currently a judge on the BBC1 talent show The One and Only. Again, he is working alongside his wife and colleague Carrie Grant. In 2008 they branched out into children's television, hosting their own CBeebies show Carrie and David's Popshop.