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Simon Cowell signs ten year old
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 18 February 2011
Simon Cowell’s on a roll right now. Having signed his first non-talent-show artist in six years last year (that being Labrinth, of course), he has now gone and bagged another, this time a ten year old girl from Canada, Heather Russell.
People are already calling her “the new Justin Bieber”, though that’s possibly just because she’s a Canadian child. We’ve not seen her hair cut as yet. Though, like Bieber, Russell was discovered after posting a video to YouTube (or so the story goes, anyway). A spokesperson for Cowell’s company, Syco, told The Independent: “Simon just loved her. He said she was amazingly talented from the first time he saw her”.
Russell’s mother, Monica Cidade, said of the deal: “We’re more than excited, but Heather deserves it. She is the hardest working ten year old I know. She is committed and real”.
Yeah, diligence and career commitment are great qualities in a ten year old.
