Post by richnorri on Nov 18, 2006 18:30:17 GMT
Hello everybody! 
There is a major article about Daisy in the Scotsman today:-
Thriving Miss Daisy
JULIA HORTON
(jhorton@edinburghnews.com)
ANXIOUSLY chewing on a eucalyptus sweet, Musselburgh primary school pupil Daisy Chute waited backstage at Edinburgh's Playhouse to audition for a dream role in world-famous musical Les Miserables.
Shaking with nerves, the nine-year-old Loretto schoolgirl stepped forward when her name was called - and sang her heart out.
Her performance won her the role of Young Cosette and for three months she took to the stage at the Playhouse. The glamour of the stage show was a world away from Edinburgh's St Mary's Cathedral, where Daisy sang in the choir.
Yet it was there she was first encouraged to make a CD, which was to secure her a place in All Angels, the new UK classical music girl group hotly tipped to take the coveted Christmas No 1 spot in the pop charts this year.
Still only 17, the years since she stood fretting at the Playhouse have been a whirlwind of excitement and success for Daisy.
But despite her phenomenal rise from city choir girl to supergroup songstress, she seems to have kept her feet firmly on the ground.
It all began before she was even born, she says. "I guess it all started when my mum was playing jazz on the piano when she was pregnant with me, so I had an innate sense of jazz from about minus one! As soon as I could walk and talk I was singing over her shoulder, or making up my own songs."
Remembering the moment she got the Les Mis role, she says: "I suppose it was the first time that I realised that people enjoyed listening to my singing! I was so used to my two older brothers Jamie and Chaloner [now 19 and 22] whining about it! I was really nervous. I had special singing sweets to open my throat which my aunt, who is an opera singer, had recommended. I still take them today.
"It was so exciting to get through, I was sharing the role because you're not allowed to do too much when you're that age, and I was only in the first half, so I would go home at the interval and go to bed."
Four years later, Daisy landed the chance to compete on Young Stars in their Eyes, appearing as Judy Garland.
This time she didn't win, but the experience inspired her to start singing lessons in earnest, focusing on her main love, jazz. And when the chance came to perform at the Fringe she leapt at it, taking part in a jazz cabaret act.
Then at the tender age of 15 she attended a workshop at St Mary's where American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy was so impressed with her "young Barbra Streisand" voice that he more or less told her she had to record a CD.
She did - in the unlikely surroundings of her parents' dining room in their home in Inveresk, outside Musselburgh. She says: "He [Mark Murphy] was quite excited about my voice and when he asked if I'd recorded anything, I said no, should I have?
"We recorded in the dining room. We've got quite a nice piano and the acoustics are pretty good. It was quite strange though, we hired a recording engineer who had worked with Genesis and a professional trio. It was very exciting. It took a day in the dining room and then I had to go to the engineer's flat in Leith to do more vocals. That was quite rock star-ish!"
The CD, called Simply Jazz, so impressed jazz veteran Humphrey Lyttelton that Daisy became the youngest ever act to perform on his Radio 2 show. But it was her own determination to seize a chance to promote herself that led to her new role in All Angels.
It was last November when she was singing in the Royal Albert Hall School Proms that she decided to approach Howard Goodall, renowned music TV presenter and composer.
Goodall recommended her to Universal Music which was looking for a fourth member for hand-picked classical girl group All Angels. Since then she has been one-quarter of All Angels, alongside fellow 17-year-olds Melanie Nakhla and Charlotte Ritchie, and Laura Wright, 16.
"It's been really good," Daisy says. "Everything is going so well. We all get on surprisingly well, we're all quite friendly and outgoing. We all have a laugh."
Back in Inveresk, her parents, artist Alice, 54 and property developer John, 55, are very proud of their daughter's achievements, particularly her mum who is "a bit overwhelmed I think".
And in their brief six months together, the girls have also captured the public's attention, releasing their debut album All Angels earlier this month. Performing live in Trafalgar Square last Saturday for Armistice Day has been the highlight for Daisy so far, while the idea of being famous is beginning to sink in too.
"I can't believe they are saying we could be number one at Christmas. It would be great, especially as we're doing it for the Poppy Appeal too."
Words which perhaps prove that she really is an angel.
This article: living.scotsman.com/performing.cfm?id=1710992006
Last updated: 18-Nov-06 12:50 GMT
Richard
There is a major article about Daisy in the Scotsman today:-
Thriving Miss Daisy
JULIA HORTON
(jhorton@edinburghnews.com)
ANXIOUSLY chewing on a eucalyptus sweet, Musselburgh primary school pupil Daisy Chute waited backstage at Edinburgh's Playhouse to audition for a dream role in world-famous musical Les Miserables.
Shaking with nerves, the nine-year-old Loretto schoolgirl stepped forward when her name was called - and sang her heart out.
Her performance won her the role of Young Cosette and for three months she took to the stage at the Playhouse. The glamour of the stage show was a world away from Edinburgh's St Mary's Cathedral, where Daisy sang in the choir.
Yet it was there she was first encouraged to make a CD, which was to secure her a place in All Angels, the new UK classical music girl group hotly tipped to take the coveted Christmas No 1 spot in the pop charts this year.
Still only 17, the years since she stood fretting at the Playhouse have been a whirlwind of excitement and success for Daisy.
But despite her phenomenal rise from city choir girl to supergroup songstress, she seems to have kept her feet firmly on the ground.
It all began before she was even born, she says. "I guess it all started when my mum was playing jazz on the piano when she was pregnant with me, so I had an innate sense of jazz from about minus one! As soon as I could walk and talk I was singing over her shoulder, or making up my own songs."
Remembering the moment she got the Les Mis role, she says: "I suppose it was the first time that I realised that people enjoyed listening to my singing! I was so used to my two older brothers Jamie and Chaloner [now 19 and 22] whining about it! I was really nervous. I had special singing sweets to open my throat which my aunt, who is an opera singer, had recommended. I still take them today.
"It was so exciting to get through, I was sharing the role because you're not allowed to do too much when you're that age, and I was only in the first half, so I would go home at the interval and go to bed."
Four years later, Daisy landed the chance to compete on Young Stars in their Eyes, appearing as Judy Garland.
This time she didn't win, but the experience inspired her to start singing lessons in earnest, focusing on her main love, jazz. And when the chance came to perform at the Fringe she leapt at it, taking part in a jazz cabaret act.
Then at the tender age of 15 she attended a workshop at St Mary's where American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy was so impressed with her "young Barbra Streisand" voice that he more or less told her she had to record a CD.
She did - in the unlikely surroundings of her parents' dining room in their home in Inveresk, outside Musselburgh. She says: "He [Mark Murphy] was quite excited about my voice and when he asked if I'd recorded anything, I said no, should I have?
"We recorded in the dining room. We've got quite a nice piano and the acoustics are pretty good. It was quite strange though, we hired a recording engineer who had worked with Genesis and a professional trio. It was very exciting. It took a day in the dining room and then I had to go to the engineer's flat in Leith to do more vocals. That was quite rock star-ish!"
The CD, called Simply Jazz, so impressed jazz veteran Humphrey Lyttelton that Daisy became the youngest ever act to perform on his Radio 2 show. But it was her own determination to seize a chance to promote herself that led to her new role in All Angels.
It was last November when she was singing in the Royal Albert Hall School Proms that she decided to approach Howard Goodall, renowned music TV presenter and composer.
Goodall recommended her to Universal Music which was looking for a fourth member for hand-picked classical girl group All Angels. Since then she has been one-quarter of All Angels, alongside fellow 17-year-olds Melanie Nakhla and Charlotte Ritchie, and Laura Wright, 16.
"It's been really good," Daisy says. "Everything is going so well. We all get on surprisingly well, we're all quite friendly and outgoing. We all have a laugh."
Back in Inveresk, her parents, artist Alice, 54 and property developer John, 55, are very proud of their daughter's achievements, particularly her mum who is "a bit overwhelmed I think".
And in their brief six months together, the girls have also captured the public's attention, releasing their debut album All Angels earlier this month. Performing live in Trafalgar Square last Saturday for Armistice Day has been the highlight for Daisy so far, while the idea of being famous is beginning to sink in too.
"I can't believe they are saying we could be number one at Christmas. It would be great, especially as we're doing it for the Poppy Appeal too."
Words which perhaps prove that she really is an angel.
This article: living.scotsman.com/performing.cfm?id=1710992006
Last updated: 18-Nov-06 12:50 GMT
Richard
