David enjoyed performing in musicals from a young age, and when his parents bought him a piano he discovered he loved writing songs, and taught himself to play. David was inspired by his father’s record collection of The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison and Elton John, and he cites the Beatles as a huge influence. He studied music at school, won several talent competitions and played lead roles in musicals both at school and at PACE Youth drama. "The person who has inspired me the most is Elton John. I love the Beatles, but as I was growing up, I always wanted to play the piano like him. I've never had any lessons, so he has been my only teacher.".........?"www.davidsneddonfansite.co.uk
After attending University in Glasgow for a year, David decided to pursue a career in music. He was offered several opportunities – a musical in London, and a part in a young boy band called Arena. He performed in musicals and sang with bands in Scotland for several years. He also presented 'Inside Out' a children's show on Scottish TV. While acting in Romeo and Juliet he met John Kielty - David was Romeo and John was acting Juliet's father. After doing some acoustic nights together at the Tron in Glasgow in 2001, they decided to start a band, and called themselves The Martians Band.
Achievements David was performing with the Martians in the summer of 2002, when he decided to enter the BBC Fame Academy show. He made the final stages in London after auditioning in Glasgow, but was not selected for one of the final eleven places. On the first show he came second after Sinéad Quinn in a public vote for the last place. However when another contestant Naomi Roper pulled out due to illness, he was offered her place and entered the program two weeks late. Even with this shaky start, David then went on to win over the public vote. He performed some of Elton John's songs in the final program, competing against Sinéad Quinn and Lemar Obika.
He won the show with 3 & half million of the 6 million public votes, and beating over 36,000 applicants for the show. He was signed to Mercury Records in December 2002, and shot his first video at Abbey Road Studios. David's first single Stop Living The Lie, which he wrote when he was 17, was #1 in the UK Charts for two weeks in January 2003. To date, he is the only artist from a reality TV show to have a no.1 hit single with a self-written song.
His debut album, "Seven Years Ten Weeks" which refers to David's seven years of struggling and his ten weeks on the TV show, was released in April and entered the UK album chart in the Top 5. The album was produced by Hugh Padgham, and recorded with Elton John's band; it contains all original material written by David, and some co-writes with John Kielty. There was a Scottish album launch, for the release on 27th April, when David did 7 gigs in 10 hours all over Scotland. In 2003 David and his band did a University tour, the Box Live and Summer XS tours, headlined at the 'Pop on the Rock' music festival in the Channel Islands, and supported Bryan Adams and Elton John. He also performed on TV many times; Top of the Pops, BBC Hogmanay show, the Lottery show, and GMTV. David was a guest presenter on The Saturday Show, the BBC's Glasgow Children in Need appeal, & appeared in on Avid Merrion's ' Bo Selecta' on Channel 4.
David left Mercury Records for a Publishing deal with Universal Music in October 2003. David said "I've loved all the music side of it, it's everything I hoped it would be - the recording, the studio, writing, but the other stuff..........?" He continued to concentrate on songwriting, sometimes with John Kielty, and in 2004 and 2005 he played gigs around London and Scotland with rock band The Sham. The Sham included Ed Carlile(drums),Si Jones(guitar), Jake Goslin(keys), John Kielty(guitar) & Jay Mein(bass).
In 2005 David started to write and record for a new acoustic solo Album. David did acoustic gigs with John Kielty, in London and Scotland in 2006. John has his band The Martians Band, and their musical, the Sundowe, won the Quest for a new Scottish Musical in July and will be performed in Inverness in 2007.
David has written songs for UK soul singer Nate James for his Album, Set The Tone, and his single,The Message, which is in the Radio Airplay and Singles charts across Europe and Japan in October 2006. In November 2006 his song, Baby Get Higher was a hit for Dutch artist Ven Velsen. He has four songs picked up world wide.
In 2006 David enjoyed doing gigs of his personal acoustic songs. On his myspace page he describes his music as 'melody driven acoustic singer songwriter.' For Gigs listings - www.myspace.com/davidsneddon David is releasing a 5 track EP on the 10th January 2007.
