Following The X Factor, Lily signed a record deal with Sony, and released a single titled "You Bring Me Joy".
The daughter of Aranka Bradley and Barry Horowitz, Amelia Lily Oliver was born in Nunthorpe, Middlesbrough on 16 October 1994.
Lily began her musical career as a secondary school pupil by posting videos of herself singing on YouTube.
[5] In 2011, Lily auditioned for the eighth series of The X Factor in Liverpool in front of judges Louis Walsh, Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland and Tulisa.
Lily made it to the live shows in Rowland's Girls category (solo females aged 16–24), alongside Misha B, Janet Devlin and Sophie Habibis.
In the semi-final, she performed Motown classic "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" and "I'm with You" to win her place in the final.
Throughout the series, she topped the public vote twice and was in the bottom two only once before reaching the finals, where she sang "Ain't No Other Man" and performed "River Deep – Mountain High" alongside Rowland.
After Lily embarked on the X Factor Live Tour 2012 which took place in cities across the UK and Ireland, it was announced that she had signed a £500,000 record deal with Sony subsidiary Xenomania.
"[12] Lily announced in July 2013 that the album's release had been postponed to record new material for it as she wanted it to be "perfect".
In 2016, a CD featuring the explicit version of "California" appeared online, including two new tracks, "The Best Of Me Yet (Greatest Night)" and "U Get Me".
In November 2014, it was announced that Lily would be replacing Marcus Collins in the UK tour of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat[17] from February 2015.
[20] In October 2019, it was announced that Lily had joined the cast of the MTV reality series Geordie Shore.
[21] In September 2022, Lily started hosting her own podcast called "The Talent Factory: Inside the Music Machine", on BBC Radio One.
[23] She also admires Kelly Clarkson, and cited her as her hero during The X Factor, singing one of her songs in the show's quarter final, "Since U Been Gone".