Summary
Chico, above, performing on The X Factor for judges Louis Walsh, Sharon Osbourne and Simon Cowell, and, right, in Morocco CHICO was a Moroccan goatherd with dreams of becoming a rock star even though he couldn't sing.
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It's Chico's Time
As a boy, Yousseph Slimani would tend his grandfather's goatherd, spending hours in the fields and orange groves. He would see planes fly overhead and dream of one day returning to the distant land where he was born and becoming a longhaired rock musician. Yousseph the goatherd became cheeky Chico, the surprising survivor on The X Factor, ITV1's hit reality pop talent show. He was the irrepressibly cheerful outsider who made it look like his mentor, Sharon Osbourne, had lost her magic touch. No one could understand what she saw in this joker with limited singing ability. But it was Sharon who was to have the last la...
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