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Dalton’s Dream review – the troubled life of an X Factor winner

This documentary follows Dalton Harris whose storming 2018 triumph left him fearing failure and facing homophobic abuse, especially in his native Jamaica

Dalton Harris is the superbly gifted young Jamaican singer who, in 2018, won TV’s The X Factor, after a struggle that included singing bizarre Nirvana covers on a cruise ship. He toughly hangs on to his gay identity and artistic integrity in the face of what he sees as commercially reductive image-management, and his easy, sunny persona is sometimes replaced by something sourer, more dyspeptic and more unhappy. Dalton courageously returns to Jamaica and plays a gig where he could have been attacked; he never conceals his sexuality, but is always battling depression and substance abuse and the single he gets to record as part of his X Factor prize nosedives.

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