X-Factor winner Altiyan Childs tells Undercover about his plans for an all-originals album.
We sat down for a chat with the very spiritual winner of the X-Factor, Altiyan Childs, about his winner’s album, but we also had to ask about his next album.
As is tradition, the first album from talent show winners compiles their performances during the show, but Altiyan is already excited about putting together songs for his first album of all-original material.
“I am a songwriter,” he says, “I remember the only reason why my voice ever got developed was not because of a teacher. I was banging stick against a rock, making up these five-year-old melodies. I just felt this urge to create these melodies and rhythms.”
He’d virtually given up on creating music by the time his father convinced him to audition for x-Factor, and he’d abandoned all the songs he’d written up to that point.
“You can imagine how hard it was for me to bury those songs, to pretend that I’m not a songwriter,” he continues.
“But yes, the originals album –Obviously, I believe it’s the goal of all singers and instrumentalists and musicians to immortalise their songs, or their part of the song, on disc.”
“Twenty four years in the making, this album has been,” he smiles, “I’ve got a chance to do that in the next few months. I was really expecting the stereotypical idea of the record company taking someone on from a reality show and controlling them. I was shaking in my boots, really.”
“But Sony have been unbelievably embracing and they want me to create an album which is me. They’ve given me the complete freedom to write and put my history down on the next originals album, which is something I crave to do.”
