{"id":295,"date":"2010-05-10T21:10:21","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T20:10:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/?p=295"},"modified":"2010-05-13T21:16:38","modified_gmt":"2010-05-13T20:16:38","slug":"rydian-roberts-leaves-simon-cowell-syco-record-label","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/295\/rydian-roberts-leaves-simon-cowell-syco-record-label\/","title":{"rendered":"Rydian Roberts Leaves Simon Cowell Syco Record Label"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" title=\"Rhydian Roberts\" src=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/images\/uk\/rhydian\/ridian02.JPG\" alt=\"Rhydian Roberts\" width=\"498\" height=\"270\" \/>Former X Factor star Rhydian Roberts has announced he&#8217;s leaving Simon Cowell\u2019s record label.<\/p>\n<p>The singer was awarded a contract with Simon&#8217;s Cowell record label when he finished in second place on The X Factor in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to release two albums with Syco, but has now called time on his contract.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I enjoyed my time in the Cowell Syco-bubble but I&#8217;ve always wanted to be taken seriously as a classical singer. And the truth is that Syco is no longer the best label for me,&#8221; says Rhydian.<br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* blogtextmix 300x250, created 5\/12\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5859621078\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 300;\ngoogle_ad_height = 250;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>\n&#8220;In creative terms, they don&#8217;t have the right approach or experience when it comes to classical music. This is something they would admit themselves. I want to make the sort of album that will launch me on the international stage and, like Russell Watson and Hayley Westenra, appeal to audiences in Asia and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The X Factor and Simon Cowell were definitely a good launch pad for me. They changed my life forever. And I&#8217;ll always be grateful to the three-and-a-half million people who voted for me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former X Factor star Rhydian Roberts has announced he&#8217;s leaving Simon Cowell\u2019s record label. The singer was awarded a contract with Simon&#8217;s Cowell \n<a class=\"moretag\" href=\"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/295\/rydian-roberts-leaves-simon-cowell-syco-record-label\/\"> [...]<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-x-factor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}