Danyl Johnson

Danyl Johnson
Contestant Profile
Birth Date	17 June 1982
Age	43
Hometown	Reading, Berkshire, England
Occupation	Former dance and drama teacher Singer
6
Category	Over 25s
Mentor	Simon Cowell
Placement	4/12
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Danyl Johnson (born 17 June 1982) is an English singer. He auditioned for Series 6 of The X Factor UK and made it all the way to the semi final as part of the Over 25s category mentored by Simon Cowell.

He was eliminated in the semi final, finishing in 4th place.

Performances

Episode	Theme	Song	Result
Audition	Free choice	"With a Little Help from My Friends"	Advanced
Bootcamp 1	Group performance		Advanced
Bootcamp 2	Solo performance	"Holding Back the Years"	Advanced
Judges' houses	Free choice	"Fallin'"	Advanced
Week 1	Musical heroes	"And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going"	Safe (1st)
Week 2	Divas	"I Didn't Know My Own Strength"	Safe (7th)
Week 3	Big band	"Feeling Good"	Bottom Two (9th)
	Save Me songs	"With a Little Help from My Friends"	Saved
Week 4	Rock	"I Don't Want to Miss a Thing"	Safe (1st)
Week 5	Songs from films	"Purple Rain"	Safe (1st)
Week 6	Songs by Queen	"We Are the Champions"	Safe (3rd)
Week 7	Songs by Wham! or George Michael	"Careless Whisper"	Safe (3rd)
Quarter-Final	Songs by Take That	"Relight My Fire"	Safe (4th)
	Songs by Elton John	"Your Song"
Semi-Final	Songs by Michael Jackson	"Man in the Mirror"	Eliminated (4th)
	Mentor's choice	"I Have Nothing"

Post-The X Factor

He was one of six acts in the running to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev but lost to fellow Series 6 finalist Lucie Jones.