Post by admin on Jan 7, 2007 11:04:53 GMT
From the Birmingham Mail
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Roger
Angels stretch their wings
Jan 5 2007
THEY may come from different backgrounds but the four schoolgirls who make up All Angels have a shared passion for singing.
Melanie Nakhla, Laura Wright, Charlotte Ritchie and Daisy Chute are all public school choirgirls studying for their ALevels. But before they met last summer, their backgrounds and interests couldn't have been more different.
Charlotte, 17, played a Hogwarts pupil in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire while 17-year-old Melanie is training for her pilot's license, and Laura, 16, is a sportswoman and the reigning BBC Radio 2 Chorister of the Year.
Only one of them has taken a step into music-making - Daisy, 17, who released a solo jazz album when she was 15.
The foursome - who look strikingly similar on the album cover - were chosen from a shortlist of 140 by music producer Steve Abbott and violinist Nicola Benedetti, after a nationwide search for girls who sing like seraphim.
"We've been told that we look similar, and people have got our names mixed up, but we all have our own personalities," Charlotte says.
"Laura's the sensible one - she's the one that will get people up in the mornings, and Melanie thinks she's the grown-up," Daisy adds.
Despite this, all the girls insist they are like their namesakes - angels, and not just in name. "The wings are out," Melanie says with a smile.
Despite accusations the quartet have 'dumbed down' classical music, the girls insist they're staying true to the genre.
"Sometimes there's a misunderstanding in what we try to do, in that on our album, we have some contemporary songs," Melanie says. "People think that we're trying to make classical more pop, and pop more classical. But all we're doing is that we can and like to sing both. We're not merging both together."
Charlotte adds: "We are quite classical and we are the first female classical group. We haven't made excuses or dumbed down classical music - we're quite respectful of the music and have kept it to how the songs should be sung"
Jan 5 2007
THEY may come from different backgrounds but the four schoolgirls who make up All Angels have a shared passion for singing.
Melanie Nakhla, Laura Wright, Charlotte Ritchie and Daisy Chute are all public school choirgirls studying for their ALevels. But before they met last summer, their backgrounds and interests couldn't have been more different.
Charlotte, 17, played a Hogwarts pupil in Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire while 17-year-old Melanie is training for her pilot's license, and Laura, 16, is a sportswoman and the reigning BBC Radio 2 Chorister of the Year.
Only one of them has taken a step into music-making - Daisy, 17, who released a solo jazz album when she was 15.
The foursome - who look strikingly similar on the album cover - were chosen from a shortlist of 140 by music producer Steve Abbott and violinist Nicola Benedetti, after a nationwide search for girls who sing like seraphim.
"We've been told that we look similar, and people have got our names mixed up, but we all have our own personalities," Charlotte says.
"Laura's the sensible one - she's the one that will get people up in the mornings, and Melanie thinks she's the grown-up," Daisy adds.
Despite this, all the girls insist they are like their namesakes - angels, and not just in name. "The wings are out," Melanie says with a smile.
Despite accusations the quartet have 'dumbed down' classical music, the girls insist they're staying true to the genre.
"Sometimes there's a misunderstanding in what we try to do, in that on our album, we have some contemporary songs," Melanie says. "People think that we're trying to make classical more pop, and pop more classical. But all we're doing is that we can and like to sing both. We're not merging both together."
Charlotte adds: "We are quite classical and we are the first female classical group. We haven't made excuses or dumbed down classical music - we're quite respectful of the music and have kept it to how the songs should be sung"
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Roger
