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| Alex Parks - "I might just surprise you!" |
| Date Of Birth: 26th July 1984 | | | Star Sign: Leo | | | From: Cornwall | | | I might just surprise you! | |  |
| Alex describes her music as a mixture of Folk, Indie and Rock and her favourite musician is Ani Di Franco. "Cornwall really inspires my music", she says, "because I'm by the sea and it's got a nice vibe to it." |
| Although she's only 19, she's already won a competition for her singing and fronted a surf-rock band. She writes her own songs and plays guitar. |
| Alex has a disarming ordinariness about her, however, in the words of her own song she is "not your average kind of girl", she's a girl full of surprises… |
| This diminutive girl from Mount Hawke in Cornwall first surprised us with her clowning and her juggling. |
| In her auditions when she sang Christine Aguilera's "Beautiful" to David Grant, you could see the surprise on his face. She had his attention: "There is something about her that just makes her incredibly watchable, she's got angst and vulnerability". |
| She has a surprisingly cute way of looking at the world. "If someone looks grumpy I try and imagine them with a red nose, that's what got me through the Fame Academy auditions." |
| Alex had been suffering from tonsilitis, but as she stepped up as the final singer on the final audition show of Fame Academy 2 she surprised us all with an intense and emotional performance of "Beautiful". She described the song to Cat Deeley "…it's a really emotional song, it means a lot to me, I can relate to it, y'know people get too concerned about the way people look and it's what's on the inside that counts." |
| Just when we'd had enough of surprises, Richard Park gave his verdict and didn't have a bad word to say! "What a great version of Christina Aguilera's hit. I think that was tremendous", he gushed. |
| The public agreed with Richard, Alex was voted into the Academy. That was no surprise! |
| Alex is the winner of Fame Academy 2003. She triumphed over Alistair Griffin and Carolynne Good in the final (on Saturday 4th October). Congratulations Alex! |
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