David Combes
Résumé
MMus (Dist) BA (Hons)
Over his diverse career David
has built a strong reputation on the London session singing circuit
singing with Beyoncé
Knowles, Westlife, Elton John, Annie Lennox, Kylie and Lemar. He can be
also be heard on numerous prime time TV shows including several series
of ‘The X Factor’ and ‘Britain’s Got Talent’.
David
sung for the ‘The Prince’s Trust 30th Anniversary’ at
the Tower of London and was asked back to sing for Lionel Richie during
the ‘BBC Prom in the Park’ in Hyde Park 2008. He followed this up in
2009 with ‘Thank You for the Music’, a celebration of the music of Abba,
with Chaka Khan, The Feeling and Lulu – amongst others – and returned to
Hyde Park in summer 2010 for ‘Elvis Forever’. As a mark of his
versatility David recently joined 70’s Punk band ‘Joy Division’ for
their festival finale performance at the ‘Vintage’ festival, Goodwood
and completed the year singing classic Abba songs with the Halle
Orchestra in Manchester.
He has contributed to the film soundtracks of
‘Nine’, ‘Transformers’ and
Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen’, ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 3: At
World’s End’, ‘The Da Vinci Code’, ‘The Corpse Bride’, ‘Troy’, ‘The
Island’, ‘Charlie and the Chocolate Factory’, ‘Curse
of The Were Rabbit’, ‘The
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen’, ‘The Lion King 1 ½’, ‘Evita’, and
‘Jesus Christ Superstar’ and has made numerous broadcasts for BBC Radio.
His television credits include ‘Saturday Night Live’,
‘Saturday Swings’, ‘Give
Your Mate a Break’, and ‘This Is Your Moment’ - including recording the title song.
Art on Ice, Zurich 2011
He appeared as a soloist on Radio 2, with the BBC
Concert Orchestra, in their ‘40 years of Friday Night is Music Night’
celebration concert, singing music from the 70s. David has toured as a
guest soloist for the RAF Massed
Bands and has sung for both ‘Toyota’
and ‘The British Tourist Board’
at Excel in London's Docklands and for ‘Picnic
in the Park’, ‘The Oil Barons’ Ball’ and the recent opening of
the Meydan racecourse in Dubai, as well as several performances at
London’s most famous jazz venue ‘Ronnie Scott’s.
David was in the final cast of the musical ‘Cats’
and has worked on productions of ‘Grease’, ‘Starlight
Express’ and ‘Saturday
Night
Fever’ in London’s West End and as a
member of the ‘Elektravox’ rock ensemble for the symphonic Queen concert
‘Another Kind of Magic’, as well as two European arena tours of ‘Fame –
the Musical’ he has also toured as a backing vocalist for Lesley
Garrett, Michael Ball, Michael Crawford and Bonnie Tyler. He is a
regular contributor to both ‘The Royal Variety Show’ and ‘Children in
Need’, working with Will Young, Gareth Gates and Ronan Keating.