The Wanted is a British-Irish boyband from London. The group consists of Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Tom Parker and Nathan Sykes. The debut single All Time Low was awarded first place in August 2010 in United Kingdom. Their debut album was released on October 25.
The Wanted was created in 2009 by an audition organized by Jayne Collins The Saturdays same woman who was brought together. Soon they began to work with producers such as Guy Chambers, Taio Cruz and Steve Mac. They live together in a house in South London. Their first single All Time Low and produced by Mac coschrijver Ed Drewett. The single was released in the summer of 2010. The first week after publication, he was already number one in the United Kingdom Singles Chart, and he was also 11 weeks in the United Kingdom top 40. Their second single, Heart Vacancy, written by Jonas Jeberg, Mich Hansen, Wayne Hector and Lucas Secon, came out on October 17.
The band also confirmed that they will do a tour for their album in Wolverhampton, Nottingham, London, Newcastle, Manchester, Brighton, Cardiff, Plymouth, Bournemouth, Glasgow and Sheffield.
The band has also signed a contract with the American label Def Jam.
The band played in X-factor with their third single, Lose My Mind.
The Wanted consists of 5 members, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Nathan Sykes and Tom Parker.
The Wanted consists of 5 members, Max George, Siva Kaneswaran, Jay McGuiness, Nathan Sykes and Tom Parker.
Alberto Maximillian "Max" George was born on September 6, 1988. He grew up with his family in Manchester. Before he started music he played football at Preston North End. He was also a member of the British boyband Avenue, the band consists of Jonathan Lloyd, Scott Clarke, Ross Candy, Jamie Tinkler and George, who came later. They participated with The X Factor (UK) in 2006. They stayed until the boot camp of Louis Walsh. But they were disqualified because they have already made music. George Walsh said in the movie in his office that the disqualification was not the fault of X Factor.
Andrew (Andy) Brown who is the invader of Jamie Tinkler, they succeeded. Their first single Last Goodbye has reached number 50 in the United Kingdom Singles Chart. George was on the cover of the British gay magazine AXM for the fight against cancer.
Siva Kaneswaran born on 16 november 1988 and grew up in Ireland with his Sri Lankan father, Irish mother, twin brother and 6 other siblings. Kaneswaran started modeling at age 16. Kaneswaran played in Rock Rivals, a TV series with 8 episodes between March 5 and April 23, 2008. His twin brother, Kumar, also starred. Kaneswaran played the role of Carson Coombs and his brother Caleb Coombs. The brothers were also briefly in an episode of Uncle Max. The episode "Uncle Max Plays Tennis" came on July 11, 2008 on TV.
James Noah Carlos McGuiness born on July 24, 1990, grew up in Nottingham. When McGuiness was sixteen, he went to the Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama where he could observe his passion Tap-dancing. (Midlands Academy of Dance and Drama) (MADD)
Thomas (Tom) Anthony Parker was born on August 4, 1988, grew up in Bolton. He auditioned for The X Factor (UK) and he managed to get through to the live shows.
Nathan James Sykes was born on 18 April 1993, the youngest of the band and grew up in Gloucester with his family. He started singing and acting at age 6. Sykes went to Barnwood C of E Primary School, then received a scholarship to study at the Sylvia Young Theatre School in London before he went back to Ribston Hall High School, all the while he continued to act as a child singer and won several competitions including "Britney Spears's Karaoke Kriminals" in 2003, The Competitve Cheltenham Festival of Dramatic Art in 2003.
He appeared on ITV's Ministry of Mayhem in 2004 and won by the Youth Projects "Undiscovered Youth Talent Contest" held in Stroud, Gloucestershire. Sykes has tried to represent the UK at the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2004 in Lillehammer, Norway. He sang "Born To Dance" and was 3rd.
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