Scott’s family have been so in the dark about his singing talent that when he showed his mum written proof of his spot in the Top 100 in Sydney this year, at first she thought it was a fake.

Working as brickies labourer, Scott had never sung in front of an audience before he blew the judges away at his Idol audition. “I sang when I was really little to Michael Jackson, when I was about four,” remembers Scott. “Then when Guy Sebastian won [Idol], I brought his album and tried to sing along to that. That’s probably the first I can remember of trying to sing.”

Growing up, Scott had his eyes on a different prize to music. “I was hell bent on playing AFL, but you’ve got to be really good - I was just OK,” he says. “I’ve got different dreams now. I’d still love to play AFL but that’s more in the past - music is more my future. And it’s now more of a reality than it was before. Well, it’s more like a dream but I still haven’t woken up yet, so I’m pretty happy.”

With no musical family members that he knows of, Scott’s at a loss to explain why he’s a natural on stage. “I felt comfortable the first time I was on stage, it’s weird,” he wonders. “It must just be in my bones. Some generations back I must have had a performer in the family and it’s just come back to me - there’s no one else.”

Entering the Final 12 stage of the competition, Scott’s now looking forward to “just singing” and getting some tips from the experts. “I’m looking forward to meeting people who have been doing this as their job and getting pointers off them on how the industry works.”

“And I’m looking forward to the end of the show to see how far I can go in the industry, to see what I can do,” says Scott, who’s keen to create some of the RnB/pop music he loves. “Get on a little record label somewhere or get a record deal, start making my own music.”