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Charlotte
To Launch Second Album |
Teenager Who Sang For
The Pope Ready To Launch Second Album
Karen Price
19/10/1999
TEENAGE singing
sensation Charlotte Church’s first album has gone double platinum
and she has performed in front of the Pope, the Queen and the
President of the United States.
Now her
meteoric rise continues with the imminent launches of her second
album and a video of her first solo concert.
The video, Charlotte
Church - Voice of an Angel in Concert, will be released on
November 1 and the album, simply titled Charlotte Church, will
follow two weeks later.
The follow-up
album to Voice of an Angel is being billed as “the
album for the millennium”. It contains 17 tracks, including the
popular Welsh songs Guide Me, O Thou Great Redeemer and
Men of Harlech. Church also performs Just Wave
Hello, the theme music to car giant Ford’s commercial,
Rossini’s La Pastorella and Puccini’s O Mio
Babbino Caro.
The video, as
well as featuring her first solo performance, includes
behind-the-scenes footage and inter-views with Church, her family
and friends.
Her manager
Jonathan Shalit says he is ecstatic with the outcome of the second
album.
“I think
it’s really tremendous,” he said.
“Following
the first album she was very much compared to a boy soprano. The
second album takes her leaps and bounds forward.
“Her voice
has developed magnificently during the past year. She is learning
very fast and developing very fast. Her voice is clearly developing
its own identity. She’s growing as an artist.”
Church, who is
from Cardiff, is just as pleased with her new recording.
“It was great
fun,” she said. “I’ve enjoyed making both albums.
“I think
I’ve improved a lot. My voice has changed and matured. This time
the songs are not so one-themed, not so religious, more mixed.”
It is hard to
believe that just 12 months ago the young soprano was just a typical
12-year-old who studied at Howell’s School for Girls in Llandaff.
She was
launched to fame after being spotted by Shalit on a television
talent show and spent her school summer holidays last year recording
Voice of an Angel in London.
That album was
released almost a year ago and has gone on to sell almost three
million copies worldwide. The 13-year-old is now rumoured to be
worth £13m.
Since the
release of the first album Church has performed at many prestigious
events, including the Voices of a Nation concert to
mark the opening of the National Assembly for Wales and the first
Children’s Proms at Hyde Park last month.
She has even
conquered America, appearing on the David Letterman Show and
at the MTV Music Awards in New York. For seven consecutive weeks
this year she was the biggest British artist in the United States.
The second
album was recorded in London during the summer, which fitted in with
her school break.
Although she is
now back at school in Cardiff, she will soon start filming for a
number of TV programmes, including the Generation Game, GMTV and
An Audience With Cliff Richard. In January she will
embark on a hectic worldwide tour to promote the new album.
A 50-minute
television special about Charlotte Church will be screened by BBC1
on October 31 at 7.30pm to
coincide with the release of the video.
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