Also known as the 'Forces Sweetheart', Charity work has always played an important role for Jenkins. In , Katherine made her film role debut alongside Jonny Depp and Bill Nighy in 'Minamata', a movie scheduled for release later this year. Sign In. Edit Katherine Jenkins. Showing all 27 items. Classical-crossover singer, who was the biggest-selling classical star in the UK in She is sometimes erroneously referred to as an opera singer but she has never performed in an opera.
After entering a modelling competition, she became the Face of Wales Her previous jobs before becoming a successful singer have included a freelance singing teacher, a tour guide on the London Eye and a model. Her father, Selwyn, died of lung cancer at age 70 when she was She has remarked on missing him in her album liner notes and has dedicated any award she has received to him. On the advice of the original Forces Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn , in December and , she travelled to Iraq to sing to the soldiers for Christmas.
On her first visit to Iraq in , when travelling to Shaibah, the largest British base in Southern Iraq, the helicopter she was travelling in was targeted by missiles.
Anti-missile flares were deployed and the group landed safely. Is good friends with ballet dancer Darcey Bussell. While chatting with TV presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern at a post-awards show party, she mentioned to him that she'd always had an ambition to have a go at being sawed in half by a magician.
This led to Mulhern inviting her to appear on his Saturday Night phone-in game show Magic Numbers , where she acted as his assistant in a performance of Sawing a Woman in Half in which Mulhern and singer Olly Murs sawed her in half inside a see-through box. Appearing as a mentor to the celebrity contestants, as well as a judge, on ITV's "Popstar to Operastar".
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The singer recently ruled out the idea of having a third child, saying "two is full-on! The classical-crossover singer is best known for her cover of Andrea Bocelli's 'Time to Say Goodbye', as well as 'I Believe', her duet with Bocelli himself. Katherine was something of a boffin at school - she managed to pass her GCSEs and A-Levels with top marks, and passed her Grade 8 voice and piano exams with distinction.
Once everyone realised she had some serious talent, she was immediately signed up to the National Youth Choir of Wales, as well as being a member of the Royal School of Church Music Cathedral Singers. When she was 17, she landed a scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music. As many musicians do, Katherine had to take a few less-than-glamorous jobs to make ends meet on the road to the top.
For her, they included a little bit of teaching and even a stint as a tour guide on the London Eye! Jenkins worked with Alfie Boe in a recent production of Carousel and rumours began to surface about a feud, with various anonymous sources reporting tension between the pair. Wearing her national pride on her sleeve, Katherine Jenkins is the go-to girl if you want the national anthem sung properly. Katherine is also known for her extensive work singing for British troops abroad, in much the same way as singers like Vera Lynn.
In fact, it was Lynn herself who suggested to Katherine that she go out and sing for them. She has sung for the troops in Afghanistan and Iraq on several occasions. Jenkins once performed an updated version of a Victor Borge comedy sketch alongside pianist Kev Orkian at a private birthday party.
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