Rocketed to fame alongside his mother, Melanie Bell, after the pair became finalists on the tenth season of Britain's Got Talent.
In preparation for his Britain's Got Talent appearance, he created a Twitter and posted the tweet "'I want my first daughter to be a girl.'"
The Mel & Jamie performance of A Great Big World's "Say Something" earned more than 4 million views on YouTube after it was posted in May 2016.
His father, James Gilpin, is a Neil Diamond impersonator. He has three half-brothers.
While appearing on Britain's Got Talent, he and his mother competed against magician and winner Richard Jones.