Alex Parks

If contemporary pop has a way of filtering out unique, unconventional singers, leaving a glut of highly driven but not particularly engaging types at the forefront, Alex Parks, made famous by the Fame Academy reality TV show, is a much-needed, brilliantly against the grain anomaly. An artist this real makes it out of her bedroom and into the mass spotlight one time in ten thousand. Against the odds Alex Parks got though the net, a representative of the real world, with all its self-doubt and irregularity, singing the life back into what's all too often an empty spectacle. Alex smuggled feelings back into prime time.