Holly Holyoake
Holly Holyoake (born 31 December 1988) is a Welsh classical music singer from Duffryn, Newport. A soprano, she has been likened to fellow Welsh performer Katherine Jenkins. Her career is following a similar path to Jenkins and she has performed before the Wales national rugby union team matches at the Millennium Stadium. She considers American tenor Mario Lanza her inspiration.
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Holyoake's debut album, When Dreams Have Wings, was self-released in 2002 with the catalogue number HRH1, and recorded when she was just 14.
In 2004 Holyoake performed with Hayley Westenra in Cardiff.[1] She came to prominence in August 2005 when, aged 17, she won a gold award in the Open category of the World Championships of Performing Arts in Hollywood. She was the only person representing the UK - competing against accomplished musicians from 40 countries across the world.[1]
Wales Online selected Holyoake as the sexiest woman in Wales in 2005.[2]
References
- "BBC - Wales - Holly Holyoake biography". Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved 2 August 2020.
- "The sexiest women in Wales of the last decade revealed". Walesonline.co.uk. 29 October 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2020.