Scottish singer Nicholas McDonald is best known as one of the two finalists on the tenth season of Britain's star-making talent competition The X Factor. McDonald showed an interest in music from a young age and turned to singing after a rare heart condition caused a near-fatal cardiac arrest when he was only eight. Unable to play football, he turned to singing, and at 12 years old appeared on Simon Cowell's show Britain's Got Talent in 2009. Four years later, while still in high school in Wishaw, Scotland, McDonald auditioned for the hugely popular X Factor television program...