Lesley Garrett
Lesley Garrett Trivia
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Lesley is a member of the board of the English National Opera.
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After auditioning for a place at the Royal Academy of Music, she was offered a place immediately.
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Lesley's first major role was as Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady.
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Lesley's first job was working on a fruit a vegetable stall.
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Lesley has two younger sisters, Jill and Kay.
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Lesley has two children called Jeremy and Chloe.
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Lesley's husband, Peter, is a doctor.
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Lesley's autobiography was published in May 2000.
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In April 1998 she went on a recital tour in the USA for two weeks.
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Lesley is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Music.
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In 2003, Lesley joined the radio station, Classic FM as a weekly presenter with her own show on Saturday evenings.
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Internationally Lesley has performed throughout Europe, the USA , Australia, Russia, Brazil, Japan, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea.
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A Soprano Inspired and Lesley Garrett, two of Lesley's albums have both achieved gold discs.
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Lesley has received the Gramophone Award for 'Best-selling Classical Artist of the Year'.
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Lesley has recorded thirteen solo albums.
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Lesley was the Fox in Rachel's Portman's opera The Little Prince.
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Lesley came third in the first series of Strictly Come Dancing, with her partner Anton du Beke.
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Lesley has been awarded a CBE in the 2002 New Year's Honours List for Services to Music.
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Lesley: I'm absolutely against elitism, ignorance and the patronising of audiences. I'm very pro presenting the best music I can to the widest audience possible. I suppose anything that limits the audience - that includes elitism, ticket prices, a misguided idea that you've got to have a degree in classical music to enjoy it - I'm firmly against.
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