{"id":29922,"date":"2014-05-20T09:00:05","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T09:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/?p=29922"},"modified":"2016-09-22T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T14:27:29","slug":"profile-tamera-foster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wonderlandmagazine.com\/2014\/05\/20\/profile-tamera-foster\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile: Tamera Foster"},"content":{"rendered":"
The X-Factor’s Tamera Foster talks touring, pre-stage nerves and keeping herself grounded with Wonderland Pink faux fur bolero jacket from a selection at Vintage Modes and pink cotton skirt by Just Cavalli<\/em><\/p>\n Tamera Foster is somewhere on the A34, half way through this year\u2019s X-Factor tour. A permanently nervous wreck on the TV show, we wonder how she\u2019s coping with rehashing her performances, night after night. \u2018Its going great!\u2019 She gushes. \u2018I absolutely love being on tour, its such an incredible atmosphere \u2013 oh, and yesterday I saw a mountain for the first time which was really beautiful!\u2019<\/p>\n Last year\u2019s X-Factor was spectacularly unremarkable. The nationwide search for number one was marred by such a lack of interest that organisers tried to lure passers by off the street to audition. Louis\u2019 irrelevant ramblings – \u2018you remind me of a young \u2018Robbie Williams\/ Frank Sinatra\/Beyonce\u2019 \u00a0– had become a parody while Gary\u2019s tedious boardroom criticisms were entirely undermined by the fact his own record label had folded months earlier. The only thing worse than the judges was the contestants: Luke Friend, (the gap-yah type who\u2019d ruin any social situation with some sort of acoustic rendition of Skrillex) to the only thing that might sully East London\u2019s name long enough to curb gentrification, Kingsland Road.<\/p>\n But then, like the Jesus of antiquated talent shows, came Tamera Foster. Initially auditioning with her BFF, the 16-year-old Kent girl returned a week later looking like a secret Knowles sister. She was a fully-fledged urban star, more \u2018Roc Nation\u2019 than \u2018Teddington Studios\u2019. Yet despite her obvious pop potential, the X Factor still turned Tamera into a bundle of nerves.<\/p>\n \u2018I was so<\/i> nervous\u2019 she reminisces. \u2018It was the most terrifying thing.\u2019 At her solo audition Tamera sang four words from the opening bars of Whitney Houston\u2019s \u2018I Have Nothing\u2019 before going completely blank. She remembered the lyrics (with the help of closet Whitney fan Dermot O\u2019Leary), but the tendency to draw a blank continued to plague her throughout the live shows. Forgotten words and missed cues spoilt otherwise spellbinding performances. \u2018I had a million different things going around in my head \u2013 dances to remember, which camera to look at \u2013 there are all these cues you have to catch, you\u2019re constantly thinking while you\u2019re singing.\u2019<\/p>\n
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