Nat Sakdatorn

Sakdatorn and Vontongchai Intarawat, the 1st runner-up of Academy Fantasia season 4, joined the 26th-anniversary Sudsupda magazine project, คนหล่อ ขอทำดี (Konlor Khor-dham-dee, literally means Smart Man Do Good).

Nat Sakdatorn (ณัฐ ศักดาทร) (born January 24, 1983) is a Thai singer-songwriter, actor, writer and the winner of the 4th season of reality talent show True Visions' Academy Fantasia.

Nat Sakdatorn was born in Chiang Mai, Thailand.

He has one older sister - Darin Sakdatorn, her nickname is "Dow".

He attended primary school at Montfort College in Chiang Mai until grade 8, and then went to study abroad at the Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey, United States.

After graduating as the valedictorian of the Class of 2001, he went to Harvard University to study economics.

At Harvard, he auditioned and became a member of the university's oldest co-ed a cappella group, the Harvard Opportunes.

Sakdatorn graduated from Harvard with a bachelor's degree in economics, with honors.

After that, he spent one semester taking music courses at Berklee College of Music and then decided to return to Thailand to pursue a music career.

Before Sakdatorn entered the Academy Fantasia competition, he had a chance to work in the music industry after he sent a demo CD of his self-composed songs to the producers of the Sleepless Society albums.

He sang the backing vocals for the Thai duo Golf-Mike's ขอบคุณ...ยังน้อยไป in 2006 and composed the melody for Kalorin Nemayothin's ทดแทนกันไม่ได้ in 2007.

Sakdatorn speaks Thai, English, and Japanese.

He can also play the piano.

Besides his nickname "Nat", many of his fans refer to him as "Stitch", as he is well known for his wide happy smile, like that of the Disney cartoon character.

In 2007, Sakdatorn auditioned for the fourth season of True Academy Fantasia, singing Clash's ละครรักแท้, Savage Garden's I Want You, the winner of first season Phacharapon Junteang's Sound EFX and Westlife's cover version of Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life.

He made it through final audition round to complete in the show and continued two audition weeks to be one of 12 finalists in the house, then the winner of the season.

In the final week, he chose to sing Tum Somprasong' ต้องดีกว่าเก่า and You Light Up My Life once again.

Sakdatorn and his fellow AF4 contestants released a group album called X-Treme Army to launch their music careers together.

Sakdatorn sang a solo song, แค่ชอบ, and a trio song, หวง, along with Methus Treerattanavareesin and Surasak Chanasriyotin as POP Army and a group song, Army Energy.

To promote this album, all 12 AF4 singers began a nationwide concert tour, X-treme Army in Concert, which was held in Bangkok (October 13, 2007), Surat Thani (October 20, 2007), Chiang Mai (October 27, 2007) and Udon Thani (November 3, 2007).

On December 15–19, 2007, Sakdatorn and his AF4 friends joined THAI Exclusive Trip with AF4 ‘X-Treme Army in Beijing’ launched by True Fantasia, Thai Airways International and Bank of Ayudhya.

They all went to Beijing with their fanclub.

Sakdatorn and his friends then went on to perform at Pepsi Everybody Move Concert (February 9, 2008), Big C Big Love Concert (February 16–17, 2008) and many mini-concerts.

He also became a presenter for Pepsi, along with the other male singers from AF4.

They had a mini charity concert on March 23, 2008, at plaza square between Siam Discovery and Siam Center and donated all revenue to The Cardiac Children Foundation of Thailand.

Sakdatorn first mentioned about his debut album in variety show คืนนี้ วันนั้น on channel 5, aired on March 25, 2008, that his first single as a solo artist is รักได้อีก (Rak-Dai-Eek, meaning, "I Can Love You More").

The single is written and composed by Chestha Yarosake (except for the English rap part, which is written by Sakdatorn himself) and arranged by Banana Boat.

The album is titled All You Need Is Love, and its official release date is April 25, 2008.

Sakdatorn also appeared on many television shows and radio stations to promote his album and singles.

The second single from this album is คำสามคำ (Kam-Sam-Kam, meaning, "Three Words") for which Sakdatorn composed music.

On May 16–21, 2008, Sakdatorn together with Vontongchai Intarawat, Rutchapon Yamsang, Wiwit Bawonkriritikajorn, Pakamon Bunyapuit and the winner of Academy Fantasia season 3, Kiatkamol Lata joined THAI Exclusive Trip with AF in Japan.

And because of high demand, True Fantasia and Thai Airways International launched another special trip for Sakdatorn's and Intarawat's fanclubs, THAI Exclusive Trip with Nat-Tol Live in Sydney, on June 26 – July 2, 2008, including their first album-opening mini concert outside Thailand.

On June 4, 2008, Cartier selected Sakdatorn to become a brand ambassador for LOVE collection in Thailand.

On July 14, 2008, Bank of Ayudhya chose Sakdatorn and Intarawat as brand ambassadors for Krungsri Yellow Points campaign.

On July 25, 2008, Sakdatorn was declared the winner of Dutch Mill Top Teen Idol.

Having been Dutch Mill Top Teen Idol, Sakdatorn had filmed a TV ad for Dutch Mill, which went on air in November 2008.

In August 2008, Sakdatorn acted in a musical play as Prince Yamadori ( a play adapted from Madame Butterfly ).

This is the second play from True Fantasia and there are two cast sets.

Another cast member who plays the same role as Sakdatorn is Intarawat.

To promote the play, Sakdatorn and Intarawat covered 上を向いて歩こう (best known as Sukiyaki) and released music video on July 4, 2008.