Tom Fletcher

Thomas Michael Fletcher (born 17 July 1985) is an English musician, singer, composer, author and YouTube vlogger. Among his accomplishments, he is one of the lead vocalists and guitarists of English pop rock band McFly, in addition to being the group\'s founder. He originally auditioned and was accepted into the band Busted before losing out on the place after the record label Island decided the band should be a trio rather than a four-piece. However, he still carried on writing with the band. In his thirteen-year career as a professional songwriter, Fletcher has penned ten UK number one singles and twenty-one top ten singles. He is credited as having written songs for bands including One Direction, Busted, the Vamps and 5 Seconds of Summer.\n', ' Fletcher was born in Harrow, London. His father, Bob Fletcher, who worked at Kodak and played in local bands, and his mother, Debbie Fletcher, a special needs teacher, encouraged and supported his love of music from a young age. He attended a prestigious music school, Sylvia Young Theatre School in London, where, at age 13, he met Giovanna Falcone, whom he would later marry in 2012. He has a younger sister, Carrie Hope Fletcher, who is a musical theatre actress who has played multiple roles on the west end including Éponine in Les Misérables at the Queen\'s Theatre in London, as well as currently playing the lead role Veronica Sawyers in Heathers, amongst others. She’s also a popular internet personality with other 500,000 subscribers on youtube, as well as a best selling author. When he was 10, Fletcher starred as the main role in Oliver! at the London Palladium alongside Jim Dale as Fagin. He then went on to do a documentary about HIV for schools and starred in a commercial. In 1995, Fletcher made a small appearance in the video to the Mike + The Mechanics song "Over My Shoulder". When Fletcher was a schoolchild, he was schoolmates with Busted bassist Matt Willis.\n', ' At a very young age, Fletcher began writing music commercially. He originally auditioned for Busted, but lost out on the place to Charlie Simpson after the record label Island decided the band should be a trio rather than a four-piece; Fletcher states that he was in the band "for approximately 24 hours."[citation needed] This led to a job with the band\'s songwriting team, mainly because of the label\'s intrigue at his writing talents, Fletcher then got to know Busted band member James Bourne, which would then lead to a strong song writing relationship between the two. He has since stated that it was Bourne who taught him how to "properly" structure songs, and how to "come up with good, poppy melodies".[citation needed]\n', '