Charlotte Church

Biography

Biography

Charlotte Church is a Welsh classical singer, pop artist and TV presenter. She rose to fame in childhood with her chart-topping rendition of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s ‘Pie Jesu’, and has since become one of the classical crossover genre’s most successful artists.

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