Charlotte (singer)
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Charlotte Kelly is a blind (although she has partial sight in one eye) 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 Sir Tom Jones. For the past couple of years, Charlotte has been concentrating on writing and recording numerous songs for her own project (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", and even offered Charlotte her own TV series documenting the life of a recording artist! Charlotte declined, however, as she did not want to be labelled as yet another TV Reality Show discovery.
Charlotte is noted for her unique, pure, captivating, 5-octave soulful voice and, as a teenager, Charlotte toured both Japan and Europe with SoulIISoul as their featured lead vocalist, writing and/or singing various songs on both their Volume IV and V albums, including "Wish", "I care" and "Don't you dream". 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
Charlotte's Singer/Songwriter Awards:
2004 - R&B 1st Prize in USA Songwriting Competition
2005 - Won Honorary Mention Award in USA Songwriting Competition
2006 - R&B 1st Prize and Pop 2nd Prize in UK Songwriting Contest
2006 - Won "Best UK Female Artist" in United Nations Music Aid Awards
2006 - Won "Best UK Songwriter" in United Nations Music Aid Awards
2007 - R&B 1st Prize in Unisong International Song Contest
2007 - Received R&B Nomination for 17th Los Angeles Music Awards
2008 - R&B 3rd Prize in 15th annual Billboard Song Contest
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!
Whilst continuing to work on her solo project, Charlotte has appeared with Soul11Soul at various gigs as guest lead singer, including supporting Alicia Keys on her 2008 UK Tour.
An example of Charlotte's solo work can be heard on: www.myspace.com/charlottepuresoul
"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
