STUDENT ETHAN BOROIAN BECOMES X FACTOR SENSATION

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Sept 22 2009
UK

AN American-born teenager studying at Royal Holloway in Egham has had
hundreds of thousands of hits for YouTube videos of his audition for
The X Factor.

Ethan Boroian, 19, wowed the judges with his rendition of the Kings
of Leon hit, Use Somebody.

He has since been the subject of national media interest as well as
receiving the avid attention of hundreds of supporters.

Fielding questions from new-found fans on his MySpace page, Boroian
said he was single, revealed he had Armenian heritage, and admitted
he had never bothered auditioning for American Idol because The X
Factor was "much better".

He was born in Chicago, moved to France at the age of two and began
playing the guitar at 13.

Boroian used to be in a band called Jona’s Basement but now continues
to write his own music.

Videos on YouTube also show him performing Rhianna’s Umbrella and
Hey Ya by Outkast at Royal Holloway’s open mic night in support of
Black History Month in November 2008.