Sneddon was inspired by his father's record collection of The Beatles, Frank Sinatra, Van Morrison and in particular by Elton John.

"[5][6] He also drew inspirations for his music from Scottish 1980s artists such as Del Amitri, Deacon Blue and Simple Minds.

He performed in musicals and sang with bands in Scotland for several years, while he continued working on his songwriting and sending off demos.

[citation needed] Sneddon became known when he won the BBC's first series of a reality TV music competition called Fame Academy in December 2002.

Seven Years - Ten Weeks was released in April 2003, four months after he won the show, and entered the UK Albums Chart at No.

The album contains all original compositions written by Sneddon, two co-writes with Scott MacAlister and four songs co-written with Martians' member Kielty.

[citation needed] Sneddon wrote songs about his seven years after leaving university when he performed with bands, and on stage in Scotland – and about his ten weeks singing live on the BBC television series.

[citation needed] There was a Scottish album launch for the release on 27 April, when Sneddon performed seven gigs in ten hours all over Scotland.

[citation needed] Sneddon also performed on TV many times, including the BBC's chart music program Top of the Pops.

[citation needed] They played gigs in London, Scotland and the North of England and headlined at the Hogmanay Celebrations in Aberdeen.

"[14] From July 2006 to October 2007, he performed occasional gigs mostly in London – at the Bedford, the Regal Room, The Cobden and the Troubadour venues.

Sneddon performed a few gigs in Scotland over this time at the Oran Mor, Dunstaffstage, the Jazz Bar and the Kilsyth festival.

[citation needed] Sneddon released a five-track acoustic EP, White Noise, in January 2007, his first recorded work for several years.

[citation needed] In August 2007, he performed three sold-out gigs at the Jazz Bar Edinburgh Festival to good reviews.

In 2008, Sneddon played several gigs in London, while he continued with his songwriting work alongside guitarist James Bauer Mein.

In 2012, the singer Emin Agalarov from Azerbaijan also released "Baby Get Higher" as his first UK single from his After The Thunder album,[17] and the song has received BBC Radio 2 A List airplay.

Since then, Sneddon and Mein have formed a partnership, working together in a London recording studio discovering, producing and writing with new talent in both the US and the UK.

Sneddon and Mein have built up strong reputations as songwriters, having written music chart songs for other artists such as Hurts, Morten Harket of A-ha, The X Factor winner Matt Cardle, Newton Faulkner and American singer Lana Del Rey.

[19] In 2012, The Nexus were listed as the writers for the song "Keep the Sun Away" for Morten Harket, best known as the singer of the Norwegian synthpop/rock band A-ha, on his solo album Out of My Hands released April 2012.

VanVelzen ("Baby Get Higher") Hurts ("Illuminated", "Blood, Tears & Gold, and "Silver Lining"), Matt Cardle ("Slowly", "Letters"), Lana Del Rey ("National Anthem"), Newton Faulkner ("Pick Up Your Broken Heart", "Soon", "Feel"), Charlie Brown ("Dependency"), Greyson Chance ("Sunshine City Lights"), David Archuleta ("Don't Run Away"), Shane Filan ("Everytime", "Today's Not Yesterday").

American pop singer Greyson Chance's single "Sunshine and City Lights" (on his "Truth Be Told Part 1" EP), was co-written with The Nexus during a late session.

American Idol runner-up finalist David Archuleta's single release "Don't Run Away" was produced by The Nexus and serviced to the AC Radio format.

[24] The Nexus have worked and released with artists such as Hurts, Lana Del Rey, Newton Faulkner, Morten Harket, Will Young, Nicole Scherzinger, Olly Murs, Pixie Lott and Kristina Train.

Shane Filan, formerly lead singer with Westlife released his first solo EP "Everything to Me"[25] in August 2013 which included two songs co-written and produced with David Sneddon and James Bauer-Mein (The Nexus) – "Everytime" and "Today's Not Yesterday."