Ronan Parke

Like any tousle-haired singing schoolboy who's arrived on the scene since 2009, Ronan Parke was instantly hailed as the U.K.'s answer to Justin Bieber after wowing audiences in his Britain's Got Talent audition, but his mature vocal skills always seemed more suited to the West End stage than the pop charts. Born in the small Norfolk village of Poringland in 1998 to a builder father and nurse mother, Parke developed a love of music at a young age and had taken several years of singing lessons before a family friend, the daughter of Norwich City goalkeeper Bryan Gunn, helped him...