Charlotte (singer)
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Charlotte Kelly is a blind white English/black Caribbean female R&B artist originally from Coventry, UK, but latterly residing in London, UK. In the late nineties she hit the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart twice. Her first chart entry "Skin" spent a week at #1 in 1999. She followed that with "Someday," which peaked at #4. She enjoyed another hit in 2000: "Don't Be Afraid Of the Dark", which reached #11.
An award-winning singer/songwriter, Charlotte has collaborated with numerous music business icons including Lisa Stansfield, Junior Vasquez, Roger Sanchez, Jazzie B (Soul II Soul), Guy Chambers, Rob Davis, the Artful Dodger and Tom Jones. For the past couple of years, Charlotte has been concentrating on writing and recording numerous songs for her own use (as yet to be released), most of which have received superb reviews from numerous veterans in the US music business. Simon Cowell of "American Idol" fame went so far as to describe Charlotte as "the best thing since Elton John and The Bee Gees"!
Charlotte is noted for her unique, pure, captivating and soulful voice, and, as a teenager, Charlotte toured both Japan and Europe with Soul II Soul as their featured lead vocalist, writing and/or singing various songs on both their Volume IV and V albums, including "Wish" and "I care". One of Charlotte's most memorable performances to-date was being interviewed with and singing a duet with Isaac Hayes on live mainstream French TV.
"Charlotte's voice conjures up images of the great divas of soul past. Not those wannabe vocalists you hear everywhere nowadays, but one of those old-school types who sang from the heart and could deliver the blues, as if she's from the golden era of Billie Holiday. Charlotte is one singer who definitely delivers." - The Voice
In 2004, Charlotte won R&B First Prize in the prestigious USA Songwriting Competition with her song "Cheeky", while 3 further songs, "Symphony", "Raining in Heaven" & "Spook", were top ten finalists - an amazing achievement for an English singer/songwriter, particularly when you consider there were some 32,500 pro/am entries! Again, in the 2005 USA Songwriting Competition, Charlotte was awarded an Honorary Mention for her song, "I need you that way", while another of her songs, "Come on", was also a top ten finalist in the R&B category.
Blessed with an exotic, Latin-style natural beauty and a beautiful, soulful voice, combined with her phenomenal songwriting ability and wholesome image, Charlotte exudes pure Star quality - she is the consummate artist! Charlotte's unique blend of classic, contemporary and soulful R&B, in the Whitney Houston/Toni Braxton meets Alicia Keys mold, is guaranteed to ensure worldwide appeal!
"Charlotte is fabulous; she has the voice, the looks and the personality to be something more special than most. She's the sort of performer that has A&R people rubbing their hands together in glee at her future prospects and their future turnover!" - B&S
