My first public performance was aged 5, as the Angel Gabriel (typecasting) in the school nativity play (in days when schools still had nativities...). There, they discovered that even at that tender age, I could project my speaking voice to would reach the deaf old granny in the back row so from then on I was always, ALWAYS the bloody narrator.

My first singing performance was about 4 years later when I stopped singing in a whisper and used the projection to sing with. I discovered I liked making noise and joined the church choir, had my first solo (Once in royal David's city) aged 9.

Been kind of hard to shut me up ever since.

LTS