Simon Philip Cowel, The British music Executive, Entrepreneur, Television producer was born on 7th October 1959 in Brighton, East Sussex, England. His father, Bosun whistle Eric Philip Cowel was an estate agent developer and music industry executive and his mother Julie Brett is a former ballet dancer and socialite. He has one brother and two half brothers.
Cowel and his brothers attended the Independent school Dover College and left the school before sixth grade. His father who was the executive at the recording giant EMI Music Publishing got him a job in the mail room. Later he got the job of an assistant to an A&R man and from there he went on to music publishing position but left during the early 1980's to form E&S music with his boss at EMI. The company had several hit records. He later left this company also and joined Iain Burton, Manager of Nascent independent record label "Fanfare records", with whom he worked for eight years. Here he got his first real success in the music industry and made Fanfare into a highly successful "Indie pop" label. Fanfare had innumerable hits.
In 1984 Cowel and Burton met Pete Waterman. Mike Stock, Matt Aitkin and Pete Waterman formed the song writing and record producing trio "Stock Aitkin Waterman" (SAW). They produced several hits for Fanfare. Cowel signed up with S-Records. Later he set up another label "Syco Music" which became part of Columbia records and Sony BMG Music entertainer.
In 2006 he signed record breaking deals. In the USA he agreed to remain a judge on "American idol", another deal with FOX to broadcast "Got Talent" and "American inventor" on other networks. In the UK he signed a deal which gives ITV rights to his Talent show "The X Factor" a singing talent show and "Grease is the Word" a musical talent show.
He signed a deal with Sony Music entertainment which will launch a US version of X factor in 2011.
In 2002 he played the role of Judge in the first series of "Pop idol". In 2004 he created a show "The X factor" and was a judge along with Sharon Osbourne and Louis Walsh. This show was an instant success. The show finished its sixth series in 2009. This show will also be done on the Australian and American televisions.
Riding high on the success of the idol and X-factors shows, he developed another talent show which included not only singers but also dancers, instrumentalist, magician, comedian etc. Thus came "America's Got Talent" in 2006, which was again a huge success. Following on its lines came the "Britain's got Talent" in 2007.In 2006 there was another show "American inventor". He has also produced other shows which are not so successful.
He has been involved in charity work for many years.
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