‘Knockout brilliant’ Britain’s Got Talent child star is unrecognisable

A child star on Britain’s Got Talent who wowed audiences together with her singing is now unrecognisable 16 years later.

Natalie Okri shot to fame as a 10-year-old on the present in 2009 after performing Alicia Key’s No One.

However, regardless of melting the hearts of the general public and Simon Cowell, Natalie didn’t progress previous the semi-finals when she carried out Jamelia’s hit Superstar.

She did need to compete in opposition to the likes of Susan Boyle and Diversity, nonetheless.

But, her spellbinding audition has thus far racked up greater than 129million views on YouTube.

Now, greater than a decade later, the 26-year-old has returned to the music trade.

The Belverdere-based singer final 12 months launched the afropop-tinged single Touch.

She additionally made a number of appearances on radio, on BBC 1Xtra.

In 2010 she was instantly signed to Simon Cowell’s report label, Syco Entertainment.

But she determined to go away in 2012 because it interfered together with her schooling.

In an interview with Cene, she mentioned: ‘I used to be signed to Syco and my days had been sort of bizarre and totally different as a result of I spent lots of time doing rehearsals, going into the studio, doing interviews and doing performances. And it was sort of taking me away from my research.

‘My mum was very involved and my dad, who is a barrister, acquired the contract cancelled.

‘When I was 16, I released my first-ever song and started again. I started taking it more seriously in my third year of university when I was about 19, releasing regularly from there.’

Now 26-years-old she is nonetheless performing and making music, in addition to creating content material on her Instagram and TikTok pages.

In a current video, Natalie shared a clip of her singing the identical tune she auditioned with, 15 years later.