Jonathan Antoine (born 13 January 1995) is an English classically-trained tenor. He rose to fame after appearing on the sixth series of Britains Got Talent in 2012 as half of the classical duo Jonathan and Charlotte. He subsequently went solo and his debut album, Tenore, was released in the UK on 13 October 2014. His follow-up album, Believe, was released on 19 August 2016, and on 5 June 2020 he then released his third album Going the Distance.
On 13 May 2012, the day after the Britain’s Got Talent final, it was confirmed that Simon Cowell was in negotiations to offer the duo a £1 million recording contract with his record label, Syco and they released their debut album, ‘Together’ on 24 September 2012 in the UK and 30 October 2012 in the US. After moving from Syco/Columbia Records to Sony Classical, their second album, ‘Perhaps Love’, was released on 14 October 2013. It was described as an album of covers that also contained classical songs and interpretations of modern songs.
In February 2014, the duo split up after both were offered solo record deals.
Jonathan performed in an album pre-release tour of the UK, followed by an appearance at the closing concert of iTunes Festival 2014 at the invitation of Placido Domingo. He started a solo career in the United States and performed at the 2014 Muhammad Ali Celebrity Fight Night in Arizona, California and Florida.
Jonathan’s debut solo album, Tenore (Italian for Tenor), was released in the UK on 13 October 2014. It contains a selection of classic songs as well as arias. The album was produced by Anna Barry, who has worked with Andrea Bocelli, Jose Carreras, the Kirov Opera and Andrew Lloyd Webber. One reviewer said, “Here is a new star on the vocal scene and his first solo album attests to his miraculous talent.” Antoine added two previously unreleased tracks to his list on Tenore available for international download through Amazon and iTunes in time for Mother’s Day 2016 in the UK.
On 19 August 2016, Jonathon released his second album, Believe. It contains classical arias by Puccini, as well as a version of the classic Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah” and new music by British classical composer Chris Broom, with whom Antoine collaborated (co-wrote) the song “A New Tomorrow”. The album received positive reviews on its release. Robert Cummings said, “His voice is very versatile, sufficiently powerful and has a velvety, creamy sound that is quite unique”.
On 15 September 2018, Antoine performed his first solo concert in the United States in the Fred Kavli Theatre at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks, California. In June 2019, he performed at the Winter Garden Theatre in Canada in a three-part concert entitled Beyond the Curtain, where he sang Disney songs, American Songbook classicas and opera arias, including singing “Nessun Dorma” publicly for the first time.
In May 2021 he revealed he was releasing a version of Diane Warren’s 2021 song “Io Si”.
In November 2022 he launched a recording project with Artist Share for an album he was working with alongside Diane Warrent called “By Request – The Diane Warren Songbook Vol. 1”.
Jonathan has a huge following all over the world and will be talking to Jannie to update her on what he has been doing since 2022!
