<P> Both were unknown prior to Britain's Got Talent, but were paired together at West Hatch High School, in Chigwell, Essex by the school's singing coach Jenny Ewington . Their head of music, Ginette Tomlinson, chose "The Prayer", originally performed by Andrea Bocelli and Celine Dion, which they sang for their GCSE and also at their teacher's church wedding ceremony . Before shooting to fame on the hit TV show, Charlotte was training full - time in Musical Theatre at the Arts Educational Schools, London, while Jonathan was training classically at the Royal Academy of Music part - time as a junior . </P> <P> Their first Britain's Got Talent performance together was in the Series 6 audition held in London, aired 24 March 2012 . There they began the contest as "Charlotte and Jonathan" and sang "The Prayer". Although all judges were deeply impressed by the performance, Simon Cowell advised Jonathan he should "dump" the (in his opinion) less - talented Charlotte, considering she would hold him back in the competition, but the pair remained together, and the act's name was reversed . </P> <P> The similarities to the Britain's Got Talent debut and initial judge and audience reaction to Susan Boyle was noted by many: </P> <Dl> <Dd> "It was almost a case of deja vu . An overweight, badly dressed contestant lumbers awkwardly on to the Britain's Got Talent stage, prompting the judges to roll their eyes at the inevitable car - crash of a performance to follow...only to be wowed by the powerful, pitch - perfect voices of the unlikely stars ." Simon Cowell noted that Jonathan's voice sounded as good as Luciano Pavarotti's, and he hadn't heard such a superb Opera voice in years . </Dd> </Dl>

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