Where: Cumberwell Golf Park Club

When: Friday, May 8, 7pm

Tickets: from Cumberwell Golf Park Club 01225 863322, all inclusive £29.95

SINCE featuring on BBC One’s The Voice, jazz and swing singer Tom Carpenter has gone from strength to strength in building his career and he will stop off in Bradford on Avon next month to play a one-off gig.

The 21-year-old singer has a wealth of knowledge for music and initially started off in musical theatre in his home town of Frome.

Mr Carpenter said: “I was brought up in musical theatre and my dad was the chairman of the Frome Musical Theatre Company.”

His father Andrew Carpenter was also the resident DJ at Centre Parcs Longleat from 1994-2006.

At the age of six, the jazz musician started to perform on stage and it was from being diagnosed with tourettes at 13 that his granddad helped him get into swing music.

“It was also from watching the Robbie Williams Swing When You’re Winning concert that my love of the genre grew.

“When I was diagnosed I wanted to do a concert to raise money for tourettes and at 13 I headlined my own show which had around 450 people at and we were able to raise a few thousand pounds and every year since I’ve done the same concert.”

In January, Mr Carpenter auditioned on BBC One’s The Voice and made it to the blind auditions. Despite none of the coaches turning around, they were all in high praise of his audition and the way he reinvented the catch ‘Suit and Tie’ by Justin Timberlake so it had a jazz flare.

Mr Carpenter added: “Singing is my cure for my tourettes and I find it has a therapeutic effect in taking me into a different world and it has helped me with coping with it.

Since then, there have been talks of him going back to audition next year.

Mr Carpenter is currently putting together an album which will be a mix of old and contemporary jazz classics with hints of pop and in the process he is with singing coaches David and Carrie Grant at their studio in London.

Mr Carpenter is also planning to do a UK tour later in the year to raise additional funds for tourettes charities.