Singing dentist is all smiles after landing £1m record deal

He is more used to filling cavities but now hopes to fill the Royal Albert Hall. An NHS dentist signed a £1million deal today with Sony BMG after stunning executives with his operatic interpretations of pop songs. Andrew Bain spent a decade perfecting patients' smiles when he decided to make a last-ditch attempt for a career in music. The 34-year-old tenor recorded a cover of Prince's Purple Rain in his bedroom and sent it to major music companies in March 2008. On song: NHS dentist Andrew Bain has signed a £1million record deal Just months later, Simon Cowell's record company Sony BMG offered him a contract and he was signed so quickly he is still obliged to carry out dentist appointments over the next three months. Lancaster-born Mr Bain, who lives in Stockwell, South London, said: 'It wasn't until April this year that... [read full story]