With global hit groups such as One Direction and Westlife to his credit, music svengali Simon Cowell is having another shot at world domination with a new boyband called December 10. “There is something really special about Irish artists,” Cowell says in Netflix series, The Next Act, a behind-the-scenes documentary that follows the making of the group. Cowell describes Irish teen Hayden in the show as “one of my favourites right from the beginning… his voice is amazing… everyone loves Sean from Ireland.”December 10 - Nicolas, Hendrik, John, Cruz, Sean, Danny and Josh. “I was down in the Gaeltacht in Achill when the auditions were about to start in July 2024,” Sean says. They used to encourage me as a kid to start singing.”The charming, affable Hayden reveals that growing up he was a boy soprano in The Palestrina Choir in Dublin.

Source: Irish Independent February 09, 2026 10:01 UTC