A Brent Knoll teenager who reached the semi-finals of ITV’s Britain’s Got Talent five years ago is set to launch her first single in May.
Gracie Wickens-Sweet reached the final five places on the hit TV show in 2015.
Now aged 16, she will be unveiling her first single, called ‘Broken Not Bruised’, on May 8th on all major streaming platforms.
She told Burnham-On-Sea.com this week: “I couldn’t be more excited.”
“The single has gone through an online distributor so I’m releasing it completely independently which is quite scary but also really rewarding because I feel like I’m learning a lot instead of having a label do it for me.”
“I’ve written a lot of songs since I was around 10 and then just after Britain’s Got Talent was when I seriously started writing.”
She adds: “Although I loved writing songs and teaching myself the piano, what I’d grown up doing was being a live performer. So to start recording my own songs in a studio was like walking into a whole new territory for me.”
“It was really exciting and I’ve learnt so much. It’s really helped me grow and develop as an artist and I’ve been working with my good friend Sean Janaway who has taught me everything I know about being in the studio now and been really patient while teaching me.”
“My single was definitely not the first song I wrote but it feels significant to me and it felt like it had a lot of potential so I decided to see what I could do with it and I’m really proud of the end product.”
“I’m continuing to write more songs and luckily recorded a few more in the studio a while ago and now i can’t wait to get back in that studio and work some more in the future.”
“I know I have room for improvement and progress and that’s not a bad thing, but hopefully ‘Broken Not Bruised’ will get a good response as my first single. I can’t wait to hear what everyone thinks!”
Here’s a reminder of Gracie’s TV performance back in 2015:
