He is the son of Eric and Julie Cowell. The father was a top executive at the record company EMI and the mother was a dancer.
Cowell slutttede school at age fifteen, after which he started as a postman in his father's record label, where he quickly advanced to a record producer.
In the early eighties he had his own record label and invented pop acts like Westlife, Curiosity Killed the Cat, operatic boy band Il Divo and published a Teletubbies-plate.
In 2001, he agreed to be a judge in the TV singing contest Pop Idol in England. It was the first program of its kind where viewers helped to vote on who should win. Cowell is the main man behind the two English TV programs the X Factor and Britain's Got Talent program in which opera-phone seller Paul Potts became known and Susan Boyle.
He is best known as a judge on American Idol, which is the most watched show in the US with 35 million viewers per episode.
From 2008, Simon Cowell contract with the record company Sony BMG in London, where he is a talent scout. Cowell stopped as a judge in 'American Idol' in 2010 at expiry to concentrate on the US version of The X Factor. test developer for record company Sony BMG in London.
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