Ellen DeGeneres Signs 16-Year-Old Tom Andrews to Record Label

Ellen DeGeneres unveiled Tom Andrews, a 16-year-old nightingale coming out of the U.K., equally the current signing on her eleveneleven record label over Thursday (Sept. 16). 

 

DeGeneres introduced Andrews to her talk show gathering in an episode airing the indicated afternoon, the time between which the teen spoke among DeGeneres briefly and before long performed James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World." 

 

 

During the interview, DeGeneres recalled tracking slumping Andrews via phone. "I partial called you connected with the blue on home and I said, 'Hi, I'm Ellen and develop on hand [to the show]'," she said. "So, on hand you are." 

 

Andrews said he activate singing trigonous years ago postern auditioning for a competition. "My mom saw an plug in a newspaper. It was partial because a singing contest and she said, 'Why don't you enter? It will be fun.' So I did," Andrews said. "I sung 'Let it Be' and the guy said, 'Where are your parents? You are amazing.'" 

 

According on an communication Andrews conducted among BBC radio in October 2009, the young nightingale was named on obstructed for U.K. burst trio the Noisettes antipodal fall, after the consolidate launched a MySpace contest give carte blanche unsigned artists on defer their music for consideration. 

 

DeGeneres' primitive signing on eleveneleven is 12-year-old Greyson Chance, who became a YouTube sensation in a affair of zenith postern covering Lady Gaga's "Paparazzi" on a control talent show. Chance's debut album is slated for undo the indicated fall.