User:Dennisdemille/sandbox

Dennis DeMille is a singer and songwriter born of St Lucian Parents in Butetown Cardiff. His first music appearance was at Butetown Community Centre, where he appeared in a childrens showcase and did a solo performance of the song "I'm a yankee doodle dandy". He attended St Cuthberts Catholic Primary School then went on to Archbishop Mostyn High School in Ely. His interest in music first led him to becoming a DJ working for free with Radio Top Shop Cardiff and then moving on to the nightclubs. He joined his first band "3ND" in 1990 and left after a dispute in 1992 which was also when he decided to go back into education at Coleg Glan Hafren, going on to win a place on a Film Studies Degree course at Sheffield Hallam along with Simon Crowther, writer from Coronation Street. He quickly joined a local funk band called "Brained" who supported acts passing through the city such as "Freak Power" and "The Bootleg Beatles".

After completing his degree and gaining a 2.1 he spent a few months in London, before moving back to Cardiff to start a small media production company called "Freespirit Productions". In 2008 he joined "Strangetown" but the band struggled to gig due the anxieties of the band manager and drummer. After this experience he decided that becoming a solo artist was the best was forward.

Purchasing a used PA system, he started singing in the pubs and clubs of Cardiff, moving on to work in Bristol in 2013, where he met his wife Tina DeMille. After a chance meeting at a bar, he managed to put together a jazz trio that consisted of Tom Berge -Piano, Wade Edwards - Bass and Paolo Adamo - Drums which allowed him to self produce his first EP - Sonority.

A move to Weston super Mare proved fruitful in 2015 when he met and started working with singer Marvin Muoneké and formed a duo called "DeMille and Muoneké.

In October 2017 they decided to attend an open audition for Britain's Got Talent under the name "The Ratpackers" and were invited to appear at The London Palladium in front of the celebrity judges. This performance put them through to the Live Semi-Finals in June 2018 at The Hammersmith Apollo.