David Grant | |
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Birth name | David Beresford Grant |
Born | Kingston, Colony of Jamaica | 8 August 1956
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Years active | 1980–present |
Labels | Chrysalis, Polydor, Fourth & Broadway |
Website | carrieanddavidgrant |
David Beresford Grant MBE (born 8 August 1956) [1] [2] is an English singer and vocal coach.
Grant became famous in the early 1980s as a member of UK soul/funk duo Linx, [3] whose biggest hit was "Intuition" in 1981. [4] He began a solo career in 1983 with the top 40 hit "Stop and Go". Further hits included "Watching You Watching Me" and two duets with Jaki Graham – "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love", which reached number five in 1985, and the Todd Rundgren-penned "Mated", which made number 20 later that year. [3] He has also worked as a session singer for artists including Diana Ross, Rick Astley and Lighthouse Family.[ citation needed ]
David has become well known, along with his wife Carrie, as vocal coach on Pop Idol and judge/vocal coach on Fame Academy and its spin-off Comic Relief Does Fame Academy . In addition, he has worked with[ clarification needed ] some of the UK's top pop acts including the Spice Girls, Take That, S Club, and more recently Will Young, Atomic Kitten, Melanie C, Lemar, Charlotte Church, Joss Stone, Geri Halliwell and Julian Perretta.[ citation needed ]
He also appeared regularly as a panellist on the topical debate show The Wright Stuff . In 2006, he appeared in the four-part series The Sound of Musicals . In September 2006 he appeared on MasterChef . At the start of 2008 David Grant sat as a judge on The One and Only , where he again worked alongside Carrie.[ citation needed ]
Soon after, David starred as the celebrity 'hider' in an episode of the CBBC show Hider in the House . He is so far the only celebrity to have been 'discovered' in the first day's filming of the show. This appearance was a precursor to David and Carrie branching out into children's television later in the year, when they hosted their own CBeebies show Carrie and David's Popshop .[ citation needed ]
Grant often presented episodes of Songs of Praise and is a regular talking head expert for Channel 5 on a number of pop music-based chart countdowns. [5] [6]
Grant was born in Kingston, Jamaica, and moved to London as a child in the late 1950s. [7] [1] David and his wife Carrie have four children: Olive, Tylan, Arlo, [8] and an adopted son, Nathan. [9] [10] All of their children are neurodivergent. [11] David and Carrie are both Christian, and run a church plant in their home. [12]
Grant was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2019 New Year Honours. [13]
Year | Title | UK [14] | |||
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1983 | David Grant | 32 | |||
1985 | Hopes and Dreams | 96 | |||
1987 | Change | — | |||
1990 | Anxious Edge | — | |||
1997 | Watching and Waiting(with Carrie Grant) | — | |||
"—" denotes releases that did not chart. |
Year | Single | Peak chart positions | ||||||
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BE (FLA) [15] | IRE [16] | NL [17] | NZ [18] | UK [14] [19] | US Dance [20] | US R&B [20] | ||
1982 | "Have Yourself a Merry Christmas" (with The Wallace Fields Middle School Choir) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1983 | "Stop and Go" | — | — | — | 38 | 19 | 40 | 75 |
"Watching You, Watching Me" | — | 15 | — | — | 10 | — | — | |
"Love Will Find a Way" | — | — | — | — | 24 | — | — | |
"Rock the Midnight" | — | — | — | — | 46 | — | — | |
1984 | "Organise"/"Wrap Yourself Around Me" | — | — | — | — | 90 | — | — |
1985 | "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love" (duet with Jaki Graham) | 23 | 8 | 17 | 48 | 5 | — | 60 |
"Where Our Love Begins" | — | — | — | — | 80 | — | — | |
"Mated" (duet with Graham) | 16 | 23 | 17 | — | 20 | — | — | |
1986 | "Close to You" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1987 | "Take Us Back" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
"Change" | — | — | — | — | 55 | — | — | |
"Before Too Long" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
1988 | "Intuition '88" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1989 | "Life" (featuring Mike Stevens) | — | — | — | — | 86 | — | — |
1990 | "Keep It Together" | — | — | — | — | 56 | — | — |
"Life '90" (featuring The Original Double Trouble) (Norman Cook remix) | — | — | — | — | 98 | — | — | |
1992 | "Hurt" | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
1999 | "Shake" (Foreal People featuring David Grant) | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
"—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released. |
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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1992 | Birds of a Feather | Audience member | 1 episode |
2004 | Mysti | Himself | 1 episode |
2008 | Carrie and David's Popshop | Himself | 30 episodes |
2020 | Hollyoaks | Mal | 1 episode [21] |