Liverpool’s own Rebecca Ferguson had so little confidence in her voice and herself that she refused to sing in front of her boyfriend and father to children of 6 years Karl Dures.
The star who has two children Lillie-May and Karl Jnr to Karl has dazzled the X-factor judges week in and week out with her soulful performances refused to sing until two years after they had met. Still then she insisted Karl stood with his face to the wall to spare her embarrassment.
Now thanks to the X-factor and mentor Cheryl Cole Rebecca 24, is finally building up her confidence in herself and her voice. Karl who split from Rebecca last year as they “drifted apart” insists “Becky has not shown half of what she can do. She won’t just win the X-factor she’ll be its biggest star.”
Rebecca auditioned for the X-factor back in 2004 (the year the couple had daughter Lillie-May together) but didn’t get past the first round.
“She would go to auditions and try to get her name out there but nothing ever happened” added Karl.
It was not until a year after the birth of their first child daughter Lillie-May that Rebecca felt she could sing in front of her man.
Karl said: “One day at home, totally out of the blue she said she had a song for me. But she wouldn’t sing it until I turned around and faced the wall. It was a Beverley Craven song, Promise Me, and from the first line the hairs on the back of my neck were standing up.”
“It was incredible. I was dumbstruck. I thought, ‘whoa, this girl is good’”
Rebecca who is self-taught and full of natural talent has never had singing lessons. “She sings at karaoke and has the crowd on its feet, blowing everyone away.”
Her painful shyness and low confidence seen by X-factor viewers and fans each week is said to be because of her difficult childhood upbringing in Anfield, Liverpool believes Karl.
He said: “Becky has had a hard life.”
Rebecca who attended Gateacre Community Comprehensive in Childwall, “was surrounded by middle-class children who would have new bags and clothes and things, and she had none of that and got bullied for it. She doesn’t want out children to have the life she did” says Karl.
Not only did Rebecca face bullies but she was also faced encounters of racism growing up in one of Liverpool’s toughest areas. It was from her experiences of racism in which she was inspired at the X-factor auditions to sing Sam Cooke’s civil rights anthem.
“That song she sang for the audition, a change is gonna come, was all about racism in America. She feels strongly about that and that’s why the song meant so much to her. It’s why she was almost crying at the end. I think her parents played it a lot.”
Devoted Christian Rebecca regularly attends church every weekend taking her two children with her and is staying grounded by attending college where she recently finished a course to be a legal secretary.
“Becky has been to college, so if this does fail, she has something to fall back on.”
Bricklayer Karl 25, believes the X-factor show and judges is providing Rebecca with the confidence she needs.
“When I’ve been speaking to her it’s been as though she felt she has already won, because amazing people like Simon Cowell and Cheryl Cole were recognizing her as a singer for the first time. Now she has that confidence, just watch her fly.”
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