The newly formed boy band December 10 by Simon Cowell has already signed with a significant record label and released its first single. Turns out one of the members has already had two significant opportunities to become a TV musical star.
Although Nicolas Alves is a new addition to Simon Cowell’s newest boyband, December 10, it turns out this is not his first appearance on television. The 16-year-old singer and his six bandmates were scouted on Simon’s Netflix series The Next Act, and they just released the video for their debut song, Bye, Bye, Bye. The youngster is hopefully third time lucky.
Turns out that the 10-year-old teenager, who was born in England and moved to Portugal as a child, has already taken a number of roles in the media. He made it to the finals of The Voice Kids in Portugal in 2022, where the nation’s entry was announced as the winner of the country’s Junior Eurovision Song Contest that year.
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After finishing as Maria Gil’s replacement for The Voice, he returned to his native country for the Junior Eurovision show and sang the song Anos 70 (also known as The Seventies). Out of the 16 competitors, he came in eighth place with a total of 121 points.
His brother, a cat named Ben and a dog named Rocky, are described as his children in his junior Eurovision website’s biography, and he enjoys playing guitar with his brothers and trying out new recipes.
“Amongst his favourite artists are Queen and Elvis Presley – so he should get on well with France’s Lissandro, who has similar tastes!”
With major performing experience already under his belt, Nicolas impressed Simon and his advisors on the Netflix talent hunt, The Next Act. The music mogul, 66, and his fellow panel of Pete Waterman, Savan Kotecha, and Kamille, described the teenager as “utterly joyful” and compared him to a young George Michael during his audition in London.
The youngster, who has a slight look of Harry Styles about him, told the experts, “’When it comes to music I am very serious. It’s what I want to do, it’s what I’ve always wanted to do. Of course you have to have fun with it, but to a certain degree it has to be taken seriously too.”
Hendrik Christoffersen, Cruz Lee-Ojo, John Fadare, Seán Hayden, Josh Olliver, 17, and Danny Bretherton, 16, made it in the band after a string of difficulties and studio training sessions in Los Angeles, where Simon lives.
The group – named December 10 after the day the reality series landed on Netflix – have already been signed by EMI/Universal, the label behind the likes of Lewis Capaldi and Justin Bieber, and their first offering is a cover version of NSYNC’s chart-topping Bye Bye Bye.
However, the newly formed septuplet’s name has not received well from everyone, so a Glasgow-based metal band called December Tenth has contacted anyone from “Simon’s team, Universal, or Netflix to get in touch with themselves and their” legal team.
Writing on social media, one member said, “Our social media accounts have blown up and we had no idea why. It turns out that Simon Cowell has released a new Netflix show, called ‘December 10’. We are now being inundated with well wishes from fans of the show thinking we are that band.”
