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Nicolas didn’t quite manage to clinch the win however, and ended up coming in second place, but perhaps if he had won he’d never have got a place in Simon Cowell’s boyband, December 10.<\/p>\n
However his success on the show opened the door for a lot of new opportunities, as he was then picked to represent Portugal at the\u00a0Junior Eurovision Song Contest in Yerevan, Armenia that same year.<\/p>\n
He was picked for Eurovision as the winner of The Voice Kids was too old to compete and so Nicolas was picked instead, gaining 121 points for singing Anos 7.<\/p>\n He ended up coming in eighth place, with the Junior Eurovision Song Contest having a total of 16 countries in total.<\/p>\n And Nicolas once again impressed during his audition for boyband December 10, with Simon Cowell comparing him to a young George Michael.<\/p>\n Nicolas said during Simon Cowell: The Next Act: “When it comes to music I am very serious. It\u2019s what I want to do, it\u2019s what I\u2019ve always wanted to do.<\/p>\n \u201cOf course you have to have fun with it, but to a certain degree it has to be taken seriously too.\u201d<\/p>\n For all the latest reality TV cast member news, scandals, gossip and updates \u2013 like\u00a0<\/i>Reality Shrine<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<\/i>Facebook<\/i><\/b><\/span><\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" He literally represented his country in Eurovision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":249734183,"featured_media":40907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1358],"tags":[2202,1438,2172],"class_list":["post-40895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-december-10","tag-netflix","tag-simon-cowell-the-next-act"],"acf":[],"parsely":{"version":"1.1.0","canonical_url":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/22\/wait-it-turns-out-nicolas-already-had-a-hugely-successful-music-career-before-december-10\/","smart_links":{"inbound":0,"outbound":0},"traffic_boost_suggestions_count":0,"meta":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","headline":"Wait, it turns out Nicolas already had a hugely successful music career before December 10?!","url":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/22\/wait-it-turns-out-nicolas-already-had-a-hugely-successful-music-career-before-december-10\/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"http:\/\/thetab.com\/realityshrine\/2025\/12\/22\/wait-it-turns-out-nicolas-already-had-a-hugely-successful-music-career-before-december-10\/"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-12-22T114716.251-150x150.png","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-12-22T114716.251.png"},"articleSection":"News","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ellie Ring"}],"creator":["Ellie Ring"],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Reality Shrine","logo":"https:\/\/realitytvshrine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/cropped-mX3_1x3z.png"},"keywords":["december 10","netflix","simon cowell: the next act"],"dateCreated":"2025-12-22T12:13:52Z","datePublished":"2025-12-22T12:13:52Z","dateModified":"2025-12-22T12:13:52Z"},"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/cdn.realitytvshrine.com\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Ellie-New-Featured-Images-2025-12-22T114908.958.png\")