We were captivated by our Patron, Martin Bashir‘s beautiful show stopping performance of Nat King Cole’s L-O-V-E on this weekend’s The Celebrity X Factor.
Growing up with Duchenne
Martin sang the heart-felt classic in front of judges Simon Cowell, Louis Walsh and Nicole Scherzinger as well as a host of super producers and song writers. He then moved the audience with his motivations for taking on the challenge of the X Factor competition.
The real reason why I’m here… I’m one of five children and my precious brother Tommy was born with Duchenne muscular dystrophy… When you grow up with a child and you fight over toys and you’re aged four and he never fights back and then by the time he is 13, he can’t feed himself, you feel you have no excuse for turning down opportunities.
Martin Bashir
Facing challenges
Pausing for a moment, the father-of-three added:
Tommy died in 1991. Every time I faced a challenge I heard him whispering saying, “What excuse do you have? You have no excuse. You have never sung, but someone has come to you and said, “Give it a shot”.” And that’s my motivation.’
Martin Bashir
We are looking forward to tuning in on Saturday and we are firmly TEAM MARTIN to win!
Patron Martin Bashir to feature in Celebrity X Factor
