Alex Boye

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Alex Boyé (born August 16, 1970) is a British-American singer and actor.

In a competition sponsored by Pepsi and Hard Rock Cafe, he was named "2017 Rising Artist of the Year."

Early life

Boyé was born in London, England, on August 16, 1970, to Nigerian parents. Boyé's mother went to London while his father remained in Nigeria when pregnant. Boyé never knew his father by his own account. His mother remarried and worked with the London Underground, sweeping tracks at night. One day his mother announced that she was going to Nigeria for a few weeks for a visit but that she did not return to Nigeria for eight years.

Boyé was raised in a Tottenham neighborhood that has been dubbed "tough." He spent a large portion of his childhood in foster homes with Caucasian parents.

As a youth, he listened to and was inspired by Motown artists, including Stevie Wonder, Kool and the Gang, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, Nat King Cole, Jackie Wilson, and Otis Redding. When Boyé was first introduced to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints by a boss, he was working in a McDonald's in London. He was baptized shortly afterward. Boyé appeared in public for the first time while serving as a missionary for the Church in Bristol, England.

Personal life

In a LDS singles ward, Boyé met his wife, Julie, and they were married in the Salt Lake Temple on January 6, 2007. They are the parents of seven children as of September 2019, with another one set for January 2021. Boyé is featured in a video made as part of the LDS Church's "I'm A Mormon" campaign, which began in the spring of 2013.

Boyé started raising money to buy a house for a local refugee family in 2009 with the single, "Crazy for You" book.

In a celebration at the Rose Wagner Theater in Salt Lake City on February 22, 2012, Boyé became a United States citizen. He was surprised when the judge commanded the service to perform "The Star-Spangled Banner."

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Career

Boyé, a former dancer for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, became a back dancer, including for George Michael, after finishing his mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

He formed and became the lead singer of Awesome, a European boy band, in 1995.

Awesome performed at local dances and other small venues until 1996, when they won a vocal competition on Capital Radio, London's biggest radio station. Universal Records of Europe has also signed Awesome to a five-album recording deal. Awesome debuted three singles off their first album, Rumors, which debuted on top ten charts around Europe.

Bryan Adams, George Michael, Simon and Garfunkel, MC Hammer, and other artists were among the band's many others. But Boyé loathed the touring musician's lifestyle. "I had this intention of being a guitarist, but it was taking me on a road that wasn't intended to go," he said. Boyé left the band in 1999 in order to pursue a solo career. He lost all of his possessions as a member of Awesome after the record company confiscated the apartment, the clothes, the phone, and the money.

Boyé began performing with two other musicians in London in 1999 to discuss recording a demo tape of church hymns with a pop/R&B twist. One of the musicians sat at the piano and heard a jazz sound for the hymn "Count Your Many Blessings," which became the group's signature song. They began to improvise church hymns and then produced 'Soul Saints' in the evening. The band had started recording the songs and gave performances at Hyde Park, London, before going on to tour Utah. While Soul Saints were in the United States, Wayne Scholes was the company's boss and Excel Records acted as a consultant.

Boyé moved to Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2000, to pursue a career in Mormon music. In 2001, he released his first religious album, The Love Goes On.

Boyé was hired as a replacement in Frank Wildhorn's Civil War production three weeks before the play opened when the lead actor portraying Frederick Douglass in the Rodgers Memorial Theatre's Civil War fell out three weeks before the play opened. With no previous acting experience and no knowledge of the Civil War, he learned his lines and joined the cast. Glenn McKay, the theatre's board president, had recruited black actors for the show from the Calvary Baptist choir and other local churches, but he was having trouble integrating them with his Davis County regulars. Boyé "saved the job," McKay said. Boyé continued his success in the role of Abinadab in David and Goliath's Lightstone Films production. Boyé was honoured by the LDS Booksellers Association in 2005 for his album Testimony. Boyé appeared on The Writers' Block, a BYU-produced television show.

When Boyé first met Craig Jessop, then conductor of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, at an LDS music festival, he encouraged Boyé to audition for the choir. Boyé joined the 360-voice Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 2006 and became one of three black choir members when accepted. He also started to pursue a solo career. In the choir's album Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing, he had two solo appearances.

At the National Scout Jamboree at Fort A.P. in 2010, Boyé performed the single, "Born to Be a Scout." Hill, Virginia, is located in Hill, Virginia. Boyé was sold on the Deseret Book's Shadow Mountain label. He appeared in August 2010 as a featured soloist in a concert connected with the re-dedication of a Catholic cathedral in St. George, Utah.

Boyé's songs appear in films including Charly (2002), The Dance, Baptists at Our Barbecue, and The Church Ball.

Boyé was featured in a video by The Piano Guys in January 2012 as "Peponi," a recreation of Coldplay's "Paradise" on YouTube. In early 2013, he did a recap of the Lumineers' "Ho Hey" which also received a large number of YouTube hits.

Boyé joined Wenrick-Birtcher Entertainment (Eddie Wenrick & Baron R. Birtcher) as his directors in early 2013. Boyé opened the Royal Albert Hall in March 2013 with Olivia Newton-John. A documentary film called Front Man telling Boyé's tale has also been produced. Boye's album "I Am Gold" was released in 2013.

He and the One Voice Children's Choir created an Africanized tribal version of "Let It Go" from the film Frozen in early 2014. Boyé's combined YouTube views soared to more than 100 million, with the video going viral. It was chosen as YouTube's best pop cover of 2014. He also posted his Lemonade video on YouTube with more than 1.7 million views.

Boyé appeared in the 2014 film Saints and Soldiers: The Void. To promote the film, he also posted a YouTube music video. With over 600,000 views as of January 1, 2015, he received some clout for his interpretation of Taylor Swift's "Shout It Off."

Boyé's original Christmas song and YouTube video entitled "Newborn – Wise Men Still Seek Him" was released in December 2014.

Boyé introduced an Africanized "Circle of Life" in January 2015, with proceeds from the sale going to the koinsforkenya mission. Boyé was given the Governor's Mansion Artist Award in 2015.

On the 10th season of America's Got Talent, Boyé and his band, Changing Lanes Experience, performed their interpretation of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" on June 2015. They advanced to the next round after hearing great feedback from the judges, and then appeared on Judge Cuts Week. After appearing on Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars' "Uptown Funk" in August 2015, he and the band were disqualified on Judge Cuts Week 4.

Boye was announced in September 2015 as the Heavenly Guide in the reimagining of the film "Saturday's Warrior." It was first introduced in Utah theaters on April 1st, 2016 before expanding it to several other states in the coming weeks and months.

A version of Christopher Tin's "Baba Yetu," the game's theme song, was released by Boye and the BYU Men's Chorus in early 2016, with lyrics adapted from the Biblical Lord's Prayer in Swahili.

Boyé appeared on her album Music Is Medicine, which was released on April 15, 2016. On the 27th March 2016, Vevo's "Then There's You" video was released, and the pair appears in a Las Vegas backdrop at Caesars Palace Hotel and the Paris Hotel. In Drop Off, which was a family film, Boyé was cast as Pastor Aiken.

Boyé was chosen as the "Grand Prize Winner" of the Hard Rock Rising 2017 Battle of the Bands. Boyé appeared as the guest artist for the 2017 Mormon Tabernacle Choir Pioneer Concert, a mix of originals and covers.

Boyé released "Bend Not Break," a boyé song written by Randy Jackson (American Idol).

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