Our celebrity music experts

Meet the panel of experienced entertainers who'll be dishing out their honest opinions to the competitng performers.

A multi-media entrepreneur, with a music career that spans three decades, Dave Stewart is recognised as one of the most respected and accomplished talents in the music industry today. Beyond his work as a musician, he’s also a renowned producer, author, director, photographer and filmmaker.

Renowned for his partnership with Annie Lennox in the Eurythmics. Stewart has 100 million record sales to his name. Behind the scenes he’s produced albums and co-written songs for Bryan Ferry, Gwen Stefani, Katy Perry and Mick Jagger to name but a few, and leant his musical talents to numerous Hollywood films, racking up numerous Golden Globe and Grammy Awards along the way. In recent years, he founded musical group, SuperHeavy, a collaboration with Mick Jagger, Joss Stone, Damian Marley, and A.R. Rahman.

Stewart also co-wrote the music for the musical adaptation of the cult classic Ghost, which opened to rave reviews in London’s West End in July 2011, and premiered on Broadway in April 2012.

Musician Leo Green is the son of the late, much loved, BBC Radio 2 broadcaster Benny Green.

By the age of 20, Leo was playing sax for rock and roll legend Jerry Lee Lewis, who declared Leo the 'greatest sax player I have ever worked with'. Since then he has toured and recorded with an array of the worlds greatest musicians, including Van Morrison, Ray Charles, James Brown, Bob Dylan, Dionne Warwick, Noel Gallagher and Sir Paul McCartney.

In 1999, Leo turned his hand to acting, with a role in the British movie Swing. He is also a critically acclaimed presenter, and has hosted programmes for Smooth FM, Jazz FM and Radio 2.

Leo is a huge Sinatra fan – he named his children Frank, Nancy and Albert (Frank’s middle name) and he even used lyrics from some of Sinatra’s songs as words for his wedding vows - he says he has a very understanding wife! At 15, he was introduced to Frank by his father (a moment that will 'stay with him forever') and has not one, but four favourite Frank tunes; You Make Me Feel So Young, I've Got You Under My Skin, In The Wee Small Hours and All the Way.

Award-winning singer, actor and presenter Mica Paris is one of the UK’s finest and most respected singers. Mica's soulful voice made an immediate impact on the UK music scene in 1988 when she released her debut, platinum-selling album, 'So Good’ and she is currently working on a new material, to be released soon.

Mica can often be heard gracing the airwaves of BBC Radio 2 and recently appeared on Clare Teal's A Swinging Christmas for the station.

Mica has loved Sinatra since she was a young girl. Her Father used to play his music in the car where they used to sing along together. Her favourite Frank tune is All the Way.

It would be more than fair to say father of two Rufus Hound is a 'quadruple threat', being a presenter, comedian, actor, writer and singer. He's also no stranger to talent show competitions, taking the Let's Dance for Sport Relief title in 2010 for his performance as Cheryl Cole.

Rufus is a huge fan of Frank Sinatra and even got married to his wife Beth in the same chapel that Sinatra married Mia Farrow. Rufus says that ‘Live at The Sands’ is one of his all-time favourite albums and that his music collection has more Sinatra albums than anyone else. His warm up song of choice is Come Fly with Me, but he says his favourite Frank number is One For My Baby.