THE Social MEDIA
XFactor star Brendan Murray has opened up about the harsh realities of trying to make it as a pop star, saying the business can “drop you as soon as they pick you up”.
He might be only 21, but the singer has had his fair share of career ups and downs.
The former Hometown crooner and Eurovision contestant confessed his decision to learn to be a plumber came after he faced some setbacks. Brendan, from Galway, told The Social Media his colleagues presumed he had hit the big time after impressing all four judges on X Factor but he said he’s learnt not to get his hopes up. Brendan told us: “When [my workmates] saw my audition, they sort of said, ‘Ah, you’re made now. You’re going to be huge’.
“I like to stay grounded and not think too much about it because it can be taken away from you so easily. That’s what I’ve learned in the last few years, the music business is a tough business. They can drop you as soon as they pick you up.”
He added that signing up for the singing competition has always been a goal of his – even when he was in Hometown.
Brendan said: “The desire was always there to do X Factor but it was not getting the right opportunity to do it.
“There was a lot of things in the way I suppose, with the band I used to be in Hometown and Eurovision.
“I was always a fan of the X Factor from a young age and it was always something I wanted to do.”
Brendan’s former mentor Louis Walsh has since tipped him to make it through to the Judges’ Houses stage of the competition if he continues to impress music mogul Simon Cowell.