Lesley Garrett

Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett, CBEis an English soprano singer, musician, broadcaster and media personality. She is noted for being at home in opera and "crossover music"...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionOpera Singer
Date of Birth10 April 1955
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So between my mother playing two-part inventions by Bach on the piano and my dad singing Ivor Novello, I became what I am today.
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I still have singing lessons every week twice weekly with the same singing teacher I had at the Royal Academy of Music.
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Just walking along Shaftesbury Avenue gave me such a buzz - it still does - and communicating with an audience through music is still the biggest thrill in the world.
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It was really lovely to find another way to express music. I found that singing and dancing have such a lot in common.
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Whichever route they choose as long as they're doing it seriously and looking after their voices and training then they'll be fine.
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I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible.
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Nobody inspired me more than Julie Andrews, who is a classically trained soprano herself.
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One of the problems that we face through the media attention that these artists receive is that there has been an awful lot of talk about opera and classical music being elite and being for an elitist group.
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What people really should be able to be confident in is that the standards of music- making that classically trained musicians present is elite, it is the best and all of us as artists should be committed to that.
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There are a lot of unseen elements to having a successful singing career.
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To tell you the truth, I never listen to opera at home.
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I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.
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I do a lot of vocal hygiene.
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I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.