Post by winglessflight on Dec 4, 2007 22:12:12 GMT
I saw on Daisy's facebook profile that she had a new album of pictures titled "new pics from daily mail shoot." I googled "Daisy Chute Daily Mail" and this is what I came up with:
www.citizens1st.com/story.asp?idstr=112549440
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Richard
www.citizens1st.com/story.asp?idstr=112549440
WHAT's DRIVING MISS DAISY? ; Jealousy, Hard Work and an Unwavering Desire to Make a Name for Herself. From Schoolgirl to Starlet... 12/1/2007
By Kenneth Stephen
SHE was the girl the nation took to its heart when she appeared as the young Judy Garland in Stars In Their Eyes, and more than nine million viewers were captivated by the angelic voice of the diminutive Scot. But, five years ago, no one could predict the inner torment Daisy Chute would suffer as she grew up, learning to cope with jealousy that left her bruised and confused.
Today, the 18-year-old is one quarter of All Angels, the best- selling classical girl group. But in her rise to success she had to abandon her classical training and leave the prestigious music school she fought hard to enter.
Had it not been for her self-belief and the unwavering support of her American mother Alice, Scotland might have lost one of its most sublime voices.
'I was literally just starting out at St Mary's School in Edinburgh as a chorister when the Stars In Their Eyes thing was happening,' she explains, sitting in her parents' home in Inveresk Village outside Musselburgh, East Lothian.
'I suffered a lot of jealousy. When I started, the music teachers at the school and the choir director really loved my voice and gave me lots of solos. Then, after a while, it changed. It was strange. There was a change in the distribution of the solos and the enthusiasm wasn't the same.
'I got an acting role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, but I wasn't allowed to do it. The choir director didn't allow it - and that was the day before the dress rehearsals.' Daisy's first steps on stage had come at the age of eight when her mother cut an advert out of the newspaper, inviting wannabe actors to audition for Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at Edinburgh Playhouse.
With Daisy's stage presence and the quality of her voice, it had not taken long for directors to cast her as a young Cosette - a role she had performed admirably.
So having barriers placed in the way of her advancement, several years later, was not what she had expected and left her head swimming with questions. It also coincided with problems with classmates, one of whom singled her out for unwanted attention.
'At the time of the acting role, I was thinking of leaving the school anyway and returning to Loretto, my first school,' says the singer, described by American jazz singer Mark Murphy as having the voice of a young Barbra Streisand.
'I left partly for music reasons, partly because of the acting role and partly because of really hard relationships with people at the school.
'It was a really small school and it was intense, with the hours we had to do. I left home at 7.15am and didn't get back until 7pm. It was hard at that age, especially because I would then have to do my additional practice and homework.
'It was also hard because there was this one girl who I had a little bit of a problem with and she was quite unhappy.
HER parents were well connected with the school and it was one of those situations where it was a drag to have to go back and have to face her again. There was so many little niggling things and it was difficult because, I think, I was a particular target of hers for some reason. Maybe it was partly because I was new and I was getting attention and she had been there for years.' Only now is Daisy able to reflect on this fraught time in her childhood and understand the conflicting elements that were at work, particularly the parental politics. As a 12-year-old trying to make her mark in the world, all she wanted to do was progress and have friends.
'I think being at a school like that for so long can't be good for you, because it is the same community day in and day out,' she reflects.
'The girl whom I had problems with was doing those hours from such a young age that I don't blame her, really. It was just that the consequences made me quite unhappy, too - the way she let out her angst was destructive to other people.' It was during those dark hours that Daisy turned to her mother for support. Alice, a keen piano player and jazz enthusiast, came to the UK from the U.S. to study art and met Daisy's father John, a property expert, at a party in Edinburgh.
Throughout Daisy's life, Alice has been always in her corner, pushing her when required, as she has with Daisy's older brothers, Chally and Jamie: 'My mum was quite good at that time. I would tell her everything and that, in itself, was helpful. She was good with advice and she is very protective and wants the best for me, which is really nice. I don't want to portray her as pushy.
'She does push me but she doesn't try to harm others. Thankfully, I had enough experience in other fields outside of school at that time and that helped, too. I had summer courses and various professional jobs my agency would get for me.' When other 'normal' girls were experimenting with their mother's make-up, Daisy was signed at the age of ten with a professional agent and was juggling school lessons with singing and the stage.
Her face appeared on the cover of Bunty magazine and, when she won a place on Matthew Kelly's Stars In Their Eyes, it was no great surprise for a girl who was singing jazz standards from the age of three.
The tensions she encountered in the wake of her 'fame' made her naturally wary but she is now more relaxed with her All Angels success.
'My friends are not naturally jealous people, which is good - I have had friends like that in the past,' she says.
'When I was singing as a chorister at St Mary's and I had the Stars In Their Eyes thing, it wasn't well received because you are all in the choir, doing the same kind of thing, and one of you is then chosen above the rest.
'A lot of my friends these days are not musicians, so I don't have that direct competition. Also, the type of recognition you get with All Angels is not such an overwhelming fame.
'It is not like you are in every newspaper, or in Heat magazine, so my friends get more jealous of the fact I get nice clothes to wear and I get my hair and make-up done.
Obviously, I get to meet celebrities and go to nice parties but they don't want to be in my position because they don't want to be singers or musicians.' Last year, the All Angels debut CD, with re- worked versions of Bach and Robbie Williams, became the fastest- selling maiden album in the history of classical music..
Daisy's selection was influenced by composer Howard Goddall, with whom she had worked with on the TV show, How Music Works.
She joined Wycombe Abbey choir leader Melanie Nakhla, Young Chorister of the Year Laura Wright and National Youth Music Theatre pupil Charlotte Ritchie in the group, signed to Universal for Pounds 1million. This time, her school relationships and studies have not suffered.
Prior to joining the group, she was enrolled at the acclaimed Purcell school in Hertfordshire, which safeguarded her privacy. Few of her classmates even realised she was leading a double life.
'It was good because it didn't change things,' laughs the confident teenager, whose three recent A grades have guaranteed her a place at King's College, London, to read music next year.
'In London, Tube stations had our posters and it was really bizarre to walk past and see your face blown up. I tried to find excuses to walk past it, over and over, to see if anyone recognised me but it didn't actually look a lot like me,' she giggles, admitting the images are heavily doctored.
'When you are in a group, no one really recognises you individually unless you are in the Spice Girls or Girls Aloud. It was never a problem walking into my classroom, either.
'Purcell was a strange school and people were a little bit weird generally.
Few of them watch TV or read newspapers. You are in this little bubble and no one would know anything unless they had lessons in London. My music history teacher knew about it, and he teased me a lot, but it was all good fun.' Ony now is Scotland beginning to take note of Daisy Chute. If she was a pop or rock star, she might command the same attention as Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall or Sandi Thom. Instead, acclaim has come from those within the international music fraternity.
AS soon as multiple Grammy nominee Mark Murphy neard her sing, he told her she must record. The resulting 13-track CD, put together in her parents' dining room, made her the youngest singer ever to appear on Humphry Lyttelton's Radio 2 jazz show.
But the strangest memory she has is finding herself singing at a party for Barry Gibb, of the Bee Gees, just a few doors away from her own house.
'The Gibbs were over at a family friend's place,' she says. 'I went along with my parents and Barry Gibb was there with his sons, his wife and the writer and manager David English.
'Sue, the mutual friend, is a singer and she told Barry about me. I did some Scottish folk songs and a couple of things that came into my head. As soon as I started, he walked over and placed a chair right in front of me! The room was really quiet and the pressure was on. Thankfully I'd had a few glasses of wine! 'Afterwards, he told me I sang really well and said he would get his people to talk to my people. I just laughed. After all, my mum is my people. It was a strange experience all round, really.' As we speak, Daisy is waving goodbye to Scottish fashion designer Chris Clyne, whose creations have been worn by Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman. Clyne has been working with her ahead of the release of All Angels' second album this week, Into Paradise.
Daisy is now working on a piano arrangement of In The Bleak Midwinter, to be performed by the group at the Sparrows charity concert in London on December 6.
Composing will be another string to her bow. What a waste it would have been if jealousy has robbed the world of such a talent.
. Into Paradise, by All Angels, is now available on Universal..
(c) 2007 Daily Mail; London (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
By Kenneth Stephen
SHE was the girl the nation took to its heart when she appeared as the young Judy Garland in Stars In Their Eyes, and more than nine million viewers were captivated by the angelic voice of the diminutive Scot. But, five years ago, no one could predict the inner torment Daisy Chute would suffer as she grew up, learning to cope with jealousy that left her bruised and confused.
Today, the 18-year-old is one quarter of All Angels, the best- selling classical girl group. But in her rise to success she had to abandon her classical training and leave the prestigious music school she fought hard to enter.
Had it not been for her self-belief and the unwavering support of her American mother Alice, Scotland might have lost one of its most sublime voices.
'I was literally just starting out at St Mary's School in Edinburgh as a chorister when the Stars In Their Eyes thing was happening,' she explains, sitting in her parents' home in Inveresk Village outside Musselburgh, East Lothian.
'I suffered a lot of jealousy. When I started, the music teachers at the school and the choir director really loved my voice and gave me lots of solos. Then, after a while, it changed. It was strange. There was a change in the distribution of the solos and the enthusiasm wasn't the same.
'I got an acting role in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, at the Lyceum Theatre in Edinburgh, but I wasn't allowed to do it. The choir director didn't allow it - and that was the day before the dress rehearsals.' Daisy's first steps on stage had come at the age of eight when her mother cut an advert out of the newspaper, inviting wannabe actors to audition for Victor Hugo's Les Miserables at Edinburgh Playhouse.
With Daisy's stage presence and the quality of her voice, it had not taken long for directors to cast her as a young Cosette - a role she had performed admirably.
So having barriers placed in the way of her advancement, several years later, was not what she had expected and left her head swimming with questions. It also coincided with problems with classmates, one of whom singled her out for unwanted attention.
'At the time of the acting role, I was thinking of leaving the school anyway and returning to Loretto, my first school,' says the singer, described by American jazz singer Mark Murphy as having the voice of a young Barbra Streisand.
'I left partly for music reasons, partly because of the acting role and partly because of really hard relationships with people at the school.
'It was a really small school and it was intense, with the hours we had to do. I left home at 7.15am and didn't get back until 7pm. It was hard at that age, especially because I would then have to do my additional practice and homework.
'It was also hard because there was this one girl who I had a little bit of a problem with and she was quite unhappy.
HER parents were well connected with the school and it was one of those situations where it was a drag to have to go back and have to face her again. There was so many little niggling things and it was difficult because, I think, I was a particular target of hers for some reason. Maybe it was partly because I was new and I was getting attention and she had been there for years.' Only now is Daisy able to reflect on this fraught time in her childhood and understand the conflicting elements that were at work, particularly the parental politics. As a 12-year-old trying to make her mark in the world, all she wanted to do was progress and have friends.
'I think being at a school like that for so long can't be good for you, because it is the same community day in and day out,' she reflects.
'The girl whom I had problems with was doing those hours from such a young age that I don't blame her, really. It was just that the consequences made me quite unhappy, too - the way she let out her angst was destructive to other people.' It was during those dark hours that Daisy turned to her mother for support. Alice, a keen piano player and jazz enthusiast, came to the UK from the U.S. to study art and met Daisy's father John, a property expert, at a party in Edinburgh.
Throughout Daisy's life, Alice has been always in her corner, pushing her when required, as she has with Daisy's older brothers, Chally and Jamie: 'My mum was quite good at that time. I would tell her everything and that, in itself, was helpful. She was good with advice and she is very protective and wants the best for me, which is really nice. I don't want to portray her as pushy.
'She does push me but she doesn't try to harm others. Thankfully, I had enough experience in other fields outside of school at that time and that helped, too. I had summer courses and various professional jobs my agency would get for me.' When other 'normal' girls were experimenting with their mother's make-up, Daisy was signed at the age of ten with a professional agent and was juggling school lessons with singing and the stage.
Her face appeared on the cover of Bunty magazine and, when she won a place on Matthew Kelly's Stars In Their Eyes, it was no great surprise for a girl who was singing jazz standards from the age of three.
The tensions she encountered in the wake of her 'fame' made her naturally wary but she is now more relaxed with her All Angels success.
'My friends are not naturally jealous people, which is good - I have had friends like that in the past,' she says.
'When I was singing as a chorister at St Mary's and I had the Stars In Their Eyes thing, it wasn't well received because you are all in the choir, doing the same kind of thing, and one of you is then chosen above the rest.
'A lot of my friends these days are not musicians, so I don't have that direct competition. Also, the type of recognition you get with All Angels is not such an overwhelming fame.
'It is not like you are in every newspaper, or in Heat magazine, so my friends get more jealous of the fact I get nice clothes to wear and I get my hair and make-up done.
Obviously, I get to meet celebrities and go to nice parties but they don't want to be in my position because they don't want to be singers or musicians.' Last year, the All Angels debut CD, with re- worked versions of Bach and Robbie Williams, became the fastest- selling maiden album in the history of classical music..
Daisy's selection was influenced by composer Howard Goddall, with whom she had worked with on the TV show, How Music Works.
She joined Wycombe Abbey choir leader Melanie Nakhla, Young Chorister of the Year Laura Wright and National Youth Music Theatre pupil Charlotte Ritchie in the group, signed to Universal for Pounds 1million. This time, her school relationships and studies have not suffered.
Prior to joining the group, she was enrolled at the acclaimed Purcell school in Hertfordshire, which safeguarded her privacy. Few of her classmates even realised she was leading a double life.
'It was good because it didn't change things,' laughs the confident teenager, whose three recent A grades have guaranteed her a place at King's College, London, to read music next year.
'In London, Tube stations had our posters and it was really bizarre to walk past and see your face blown up. I tried to find excuses to walk past it, over and over, to see if anyone recognised me but it didn't actually look a lot like me,' she giggles, admitting the images are heavily doctored.
'When you are in a group, no one really recognises you individually unless you are in the Spice Girls or Girls Aloud. It was never a problem walking into my classroom, either.
'Purcell was a strange school and people were a little bit weird generally.
Few of them watch TV or read newspapers. You are in this little bubble and no one would know anything unless they had lessons in London. My music history teacher knew about it, and he teased me a lot, but it was all good fun.' Ony now is Scotland beginning to take note of Daisy Chute. If she was a pop or rock star, she might command the same attention as Franz Ferdinand, KT Tunstall or Sandi Thom. Instead, acclaim has come from those within the international music fraternity.
AS soon as multiple Grammy nominee Mark Murphy neard her sing, he told her she must record. The resulting 13-track CD, put together in her parents' dining room, made her the youngest singer ever to appear on Humphry Lyttelton's Radio 2 jazz show.
But the strangest memory she has is finding herself singing at a party for Barry Gibb, of the Bee Gees, just a few doors away from her own house.
'The Gibbs were over at a family friend's place,' she says. 'I went along with my parents and Barry Gibb was there with his sons, his wife and the writer and manager David English.
'Sue, the mutual friend, is a singer and she told Barry about me. I did some Scottish folk songs and a couple of things that came into my head. As soon as I started, he walked over and placed a chair right in front of me! The room was really quiet and the pressure was on. Thankfully I'd had a few glasses of wine! 'Afterwards, he told me I sang really well and said he would get his people to talk to my people. I just laughed. After all, my mum is my people. It was a strange experience all round, really.' As we speak, Daisy is waving goodbye to Scottish fashion designer Chris Clyne, whose creations have been worn by Kate Winslet and Nicole Kidman. Clyne has been working with her ahead of the release of All Angels' second album this week, Into Paradise.
Daisy is now working on a piano arrangement of In The Bleak Midwinter, to be performed by the group at the Sparrows charity concert in London on December 6.
Composing will be another string to her bow. What a waste it would have been if jealousy has robbed the world of such a talent.
. Into Paradise, by All Angels, is now available on Universal..
(c) 2007 Daily Mail; London (UK). Provided by ProQuest Information and Learning. All rights Reserved.
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