The year-old from West Lothian appeared on the third series of the show in A spokesman said: "It is with deep sadness we announce that Kerry passed away at home, earlier today, following a battle with cancer. She performed in a wheelchair as a result of an accident when she was She said: "So sad about Kerry McGregor's passing.
Much love and respect to her and her family. Colin Bunce, Chair of Action for Bladder Cancer, said: "She was a truly inspirational person and we were delighted when, before Christmas, she accepted our invitation to become an Ambassador for Action on Bladder Cancer.
Kerry's spokesman said the singer was rehearsing and recording until as recently as last month and was due to perform a duet with Susan Boyle this year.
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Respect: Sharon Osbourne, who was on the X Factor judging panel when Kerry was a contestant, also sent her thoughts out to the family. Born in into a musical family - her late grandfather, Bobby McKerracher, was known as 'the Scottish Bing Crosby' — Kerry was aged five when her father was killed in a road crash. Raised by her mother, Margaret, also a talented singer, she showed early promise as a gymnast at West Calder High School before she fell from a tree aged 13 and broke her back, leaving her partially paralysed from the waist down.
Determined to remain in mainstream schooling, she re-learnt how to walk with crutches and leg braces in just six weeks, earning a Child of Achievement Award.
Of her disability, she once said: 'Life changed completely for me from an early age. If anything, it gives me all the more reason to kick my heels in and go on.
I am determined and I will achieve. Tragic: Kerry had pains in her stomach for two years before finding out she had bladder cancer - she also broke her back in an accident when she was just 13 years old.
In , Kerry secured her biggest break after making the finals of series three of The X Factor, which was eventually won by future Grammy award nominee Leona Lewis. She managed to last until Week 3, when she was voted off by Louis Walsh. Kerry later concentrated on her acting career and songwriting and had more than 40 songs still unrecorded at her death.
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