{"id":1829,"date":"2012-09-02T00:19:09","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T23:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2012-09-15T00:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-09-14T23:15:09","slug":"raymond-patterson-wowed-the-x-factor-at-his-audition-with-a-westlife-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/1829\/raymond-patterson-wowed-the-x-factor-at-his-audition-with-a-westlife-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Raymond Patterson wowed on the X Factor at his audition with a Westlife track"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"Raymond Patterson the x factor audition\" src=\"\/images\/uk\/x2012\/auditions\/raypatterson.jpg\" alt=\"Raymond Patterson the x factor audition\" width=\"521\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p>77-year-old Raymond Patterson impressed The X Factor judges at his audition in Newcastle singing a Westlife track.<\/p>\n<p>The 77-year-old sang Westlife\u2019s You Raise Me Up, but before taking to the stage he was introduced to Kian and Mark from the band, but did not appear to know who they were.<\/p>\n<p>Xtra Factor presenter Caroline told Raymond: \u201cThese guys are quite good at singing that song.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond replied: \u201cI don\u2019t really know what Westlife looks like, but I know one of them\u2019s a blonde haired lad.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cI don\u2019t know what to expect. I\u2019ve never been in front of a crowd as big as this before. I\u2019ll give it a go. It\u2019s the only chance I\u2019m going to get. I might pop my clogs before I get to the end of it, but I\u2019ll enjoy it\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Westlife boys then gave him a tip in how to sing the song and judging by the reaction of the audience and the judge\u2019s comments, it seem to have paid off.<\/p>\n<p>After his performance, Tulisa said: \u201cI absolutely loved that audition; I think that was a beautiful performance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nicole added: \u201cNot bad for a young kid like yourself! Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Gary commented: \u201cThere are two members of Westlife and I\u2019ve never seen them look so worried!<\/p>\n<p>Louis raved: \u201cThat\u2019s how to do an audition, fantastic!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Raymond sailed through to bootcamp with four yeses.<\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-0466605792016836\";\n\/* auditions mid page 300x250, created 9\/6\/10 *\/\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"2217652781\";\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><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>77-year-old Raymond Patterson impressed The X Factor judges at his audition in Newcastle singing a Westlife track. The 77-year-old sang Westlife\u2019s You Raise Me Up, but before taking to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-x-factor-2012","category-auditions","clearfix"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1829"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1934,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1829\/revisions\/1934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetalentzone.co.uk\/musictv\/xfactor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}