| Cezar Ouatu | |
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| Contestant Profile | |
| Birth Date | 18 February 1980 |
| Age | 38 (at time of audition) |
| Hometown | Ploiești, Romania |
| Occupation | Singing Teacher |
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15 | |
| Category | Overs |
| Mentor | Ayda Field |
| Placement | Eliminated at Six Chair Challenge |
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Cezar Ouatu (born 18 February 1980), is a tenor and Singing Teacher from Ploiești, Romania who auditioned for The X Factor UK (Series 15).
He recieved rave reviews for his audition, which was a cover of "Nessum Dorma", and was widely praised by the judges, but he was eliminated during the Six Chair Challenge.
Trivia[]
He is infamous for having won the right to represent his home country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2013 with Pop-opera piece "It's My Life", which became notorious for its homoerotic staging, as well as Cezar's impressive vocals and the song's eurodance-electro beat, and placed 14th in the final in Malmo, Sweden. A few days after the contest, he performed with Andrea Boccelli.
He is often nicknamed The Voice for his powerful contratenor vocals.
He was one of 4 non-UK Eurovision related acts in that series of X Factor, along with Athena Manoukian (attempted to represent Greece at junior, won the right to represent Armenia at the regular contest),Brendan Murray (represented Ireland) and Gaia Cauchi, who was a part of Sweet Sense during this series (Junior winner, Malta).