X Factor star Wagner to play Wolverhampton Civic Hall

The Black Country's own X Factor star, eccentricWagner Fiuza-Carrilho, is playing a hometown concert at Wolverhampton Civic Hall next month.

Wagner Fiuza-Carrilho & The Wagner Experience Band will play Wolverhampton Civic Hall on Friday, March 30, 2012. Tickets, priced £15 plus booking fees, are available from Midland Box Office on 0870 320 7000 or at www.wolvescivic.co.uk

The singer grew up with music all around him, being the son of 'The Prince of Audiences', Paschoal Carrilho, Brazil's most loved variety show presenter in the fifties.

It was 1992 that Wagner came to England to follow his dreams and a career in show business. In 2010 Wagner auditioned for The X Factor and the rest, as they say, is history . . .

Wagner impressed the judges at his first audition. Simon Cowell said: "I think that my mom would really really fancy you."

Natalie Imbruglia later declared that she could not take her eyes off him.

When Wagner and his congas are on stage, the audience can expect a unique music show with rock, pop, bel canto and classical arias, as well as Brazilian carnival and world music in different languages.