Matt Cardle
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X-Factor winner, Brit Award nominee and award-winning West End actor
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His debut single, When We Collide, sold over 1 million copies
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Nominated for Best British Single at the 2011 Brit Awards
Multi-platinum recording artist and award-winning West End actor Matt Cardle rose to fame performing with Rihanna in front of a televised audience of over 20 million as the winner of The X Factor’s highest-ever rated series in 2010. Since then, Matt has soared up the charts and achieved similar success on his own terms releasing four studio albums; Letters (2011), The Fire (2012), Porcelain (2013) and Time To Be Alive (2018) and The Great Escape (2026).
Matt’s music has amassed over 35 million streams with his four-octave vocal range featuring on hit singles including the million-selling When We Collide (#1), Run For Your Life (#6) and Loving You (#2), a duet with Spice Girl Melanie C. All this, including a BRIT Award nomination for his platinum-selling debut LP while also embarking on a successful parallel theatre journey, returning to the West End playing the leading role as Charlie Price in the Olivier, Tonyand Grammy Award-winning Kinky Boots.
Southampton-born Matt joined the cast of Memphis alongside Beverley Knight in 2015. Matt received the Best West End Debut Award for his show-stopping portrayal of Huey Calhoun. Matt returned to the stage in 2018, appearing as Wally Strand in Baz Luhrmann's Strictly Ballroom and in 2019 won rave reviews as Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar.
Matt continued his acting journey in 2024 and 2025 playing the role of Shakespeare in the first-ever UK tour of & Juliet.
Matt’s music journey began in his early teens, picking up a guitar and writing a collection of songs. Prior to his acclaimed output as a solo artist, Matt released three albums as part of the bands Darwyn (2006) and Seven Summers (2010). Matt teamed up with Spice Girl Melanie C in 2013 and frequently features as guest vocalist on tour with The Trevor Horn Band, honoured to be asked to record an orchestral version of The Power of Love for Trevor's Reimagines The Eighties album in 2019. Another career highlight includes performing The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face at Miss World in Indonesia to a global audience of over two billion.
Matt is truly one of the UK’s best male vocal talents, with his 2026 album The Great Escape cements his longevity as a recording artist.
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