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Katherine Jenkins OBE is a mezzo-soprano from Neath, Wales. Jenkins performs operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns. Jenkins studied at the Royal Academy of Music, and came to wide public attention in 2003 when she sang at Westminster Cathedral in honour of Pope John Paul II’s silver jubilee. In both 2005 and 2006, her albums were awarded Album of the Year by the Classic Brit Awards.
Jenkins was born in Neath, where she and her sister Laura were raised by their parents Selwyn John and Susan.
She attended the Alderman Davies Church in Wales primary school in Neath, Dwr-y-Felin Comprehensive School and Gorseinon College. She studied vocal performance with John Hugh Thomas and passed her Grade 8 examinations with distinction in both singing and piano.
Between 1991 and 1996, Jenkins was a member of the Royal School of Church Music Cathedral Singers and passed the St Cecilia Award, the highest RSCM award for female choristers. She was also a member of the National Youth Choir of Wales for three years, won the BBC Radio 2 Welsh Choirgirl of the Year contest (twice), and the BET Welsh Choirgirl of the Year competition. She was also awarded the Pelenna Valley Male Voice Choir Scholarship for the most promising young singer. At the age of 17 she won a scholarship to study at the Royal Academy of Music, graduating with honours and receiving a music teacher’s diploma.
After working as a freelance voice coach, a tour guide on the London Eye and as a model, she entered a modelling competition and became the Face of Wales 2000. She then decided to follow a musical career.
Universal Classics and Jazz heard her demo and she was invited to an interview where she sang Rossini’s “Una voce poco fa”. Universal offered Jenkins a six-album deal, the most lucrative in the United Kingdom’s classical recording history, reportedly worth £1 million.
Six out of seven of Jenkins’s studio albums reached number one in the UK classical charts between 2004 and 2008, selling a total of more than 4 million copies.
Katherine Jenkins is 43 years old (birth date June 29, 1980).
Katherine Jenkins was born in Neath, Wales, UK.
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