Working as brickies labourer, Scott had never sung in front of an audience before he blew the nation away. “I sang when I was really little to Michael Jackson, when I was about four," remembers Scott. “Then when Guy Sebastian won [Idol], I brought his album and tried to sing along to that. That’s probably the first I can remember of trying to sing.”
Growing up, Scott had his eyes on a different prize to music. “I was hell bent on playing AFL, but you’ve got to be really good - I was just OK," he says. “I’ve got different dreams now. I’d still love to play AFL but that’s more in the past - music is more my future. And it’s now more of a reality than it was before. Well, it’s more like a dream but I still haven’t woken up yet, so I’m pretty happy.”
With no musical family members that he knows of, Scott’s at a loss to explain why he’s a natural on stage. “I felt comfortable the first time I was on stage, it’s weird," he wonders. “It must just be in my bones. Some generations back I must have had a performer in the family and it’s just come back to me - there’s no one else.”
Scott’s received some great tips from both national and international music industry experts as a top 12 contestant of Australian Idol, that will ensure he has a long and successful career in the entertainment industry!
