ARTIST

Charlotte Church

Most 12-year-olds are lucky if they can dress themselves, never mind sing on key and stand under luminous spotlights with gracious poise while the whole world watches. Most people die without ever meeting the Pope, but 12-year-old Charlotte Church has done it. Prince Charles's 50th birthday bash was an exclusive affair, but Church was there singing. She's also in the Guinness Book of World Records as the youngest artist to ever hit No. 1 on the British charts. The Welsh-born soprano has done so much so soon, it makes you wonder what she's going to do for an encore. Buy the world, perhaps?

She's done it all in a most unusual fashion. Unlike so many of her peers who might be sporting Spice Girls bubble-pop, Puff Daddy hip-hop beats, or a perhaps an...
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