Katherine Jenkins, 25, the classically-trained Welsh mezzo-soprano with the dazzling voice, has become one of the UK’s top female singers. In the past 18 months she has sold more than 1.5 million light-classical albums.

She was the star of the VE Day commemorative celebrations in Trafalgar Square a year ago. Now she has conquered New York.

She says: “For a girl from small-town Neath, New York really is the Big Apple. No matter how many times I make the trip across the Atlantic, it never loses its magic. As the song says, ‘If you can make it there, you can make it anywhere.’ I spent about six weeks there last year when I toured America.”

With her bell-like voice it’s not surprising she makes it anywhere.

Check out Katherine’s Living a Dream CD. In North America. In the UK.