Members
Daisy Chute
Daisy Chute (born 7 August 1989)[16] is from Edinburgh. She studied at St Mary's Music School Edinburgh, where she was a chorister at St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral and Loretto School[3] and began her performing career at the age of nine as the young Cosette in the touring production of Les Misérables. At the age of thirteen she appeared as a young Judy Garland in Stars in Their Eyes Kids, and made her first appearance on the Edinburgh Fringe.
At fifteen she recorded her debut album, Simply Jazz after she performed with a trio at a jazz cabaret show at the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival and Edinburgh Fringe. A track from her Simply Jazz album was played by Humphrey Lyttelton on his BBC Radio 2 Best of Jazz show making Chute the youngest performer to ever be showcased on his show.
Chute finished her secondary schooling at Purcell School in Bushey on a full scholarship, where she studied voice, piano and composition and gained three A's at A level examinations. She then went on to study music at King's College London, graduating in 2011.
In 2005 she was a joint winner of a Scottish songwriting competition for the music festival Burnsong, with her song, Promises to Keep. All the winning songs were performed professionally and broadcast live on BBC Radio Scotland.[17]
After meeting composer Howard Goodall at the Royal Albert Hall's School Proms where she was fronting Loretto School ensemble, she was asked to sing on his television show, How Music Works[18] where she performed the Shaker song "'Tis a Gift to Be Simple" with Anastacia Nosobin on guitar on the first programme of the series.[19] Goodall recommended Chute for inclusion in the group. She also recorded the theme tune for the BBC Radio series What Is Melody written by Richard Niles.[citation needed]
In June 2006 she was a "Highly Commended" finalist in the joint BBC Proms and The Guardian newspaper Young Composer Competition.[20]
On 24 September 2006 she performed at Wigmore Hall in London,[21] giving a solo recital of Alec Wilder songs. She was signed to Universal Classics and Jazz (UCJ) on the day she turned seventeen, as part of All Angels.[18] Chute has also had a brief stint presenting the CBBC news programme, Newsround at the Pop Poll Awards and interviewed Ronan Keating, Billie Piper and Westlife.[citation needed] In summer 2008, she was featured in Highland Heartbeat, a Scottish music special filmed by American broadcaster PBS and broadcast throughout the US in the Spring of 2009.[citation needed] She performed last year touring the music societies as guest vocalist with classical guitarist, Simon Thacker and Camerata Ritmata.
In 2008 Chute won the Scottish Music Centre's Young Composer's competition.[citation needed]
Chute has since returned to her American and Scottish roots and spends most of her time songwriting in the Folk Americana genre. She has performed at sold out venues and festivals, such as Glastonbury.
When she's not recording for her own project, you can hear her vocals and orchestrations on countless soundtracks for films, TV shows, games and for bands like Radiohead and Two Door Cinema Club.[22] Working with top orchestras in London (LMO, LCO, LSO) and at top studios (Abbey Road, Air, Angel), she has contributed to soundtracks including The Sims 4, Star Wars Jedi Fallen Order, The Snowman and the Snowdog, Cleaning Up, David Attenborough's Alive at the Natural History Museum, and BAFTA-nominated The Informer, Athena, I Give It a Year, Shaun the Sheep and BAFTA-winning Theeb and Phantom Thread[23] and many more.
She appeared in the feature film Yesterday as an onstage ukulele player at Wembley and vocalist on the soundtrack in 2019.[24]
Chute is the co-founder of HEARD Collective[25] - an artist collective who promote and support women in music, and the co-writer of COVEN - a gig theatre show about witches set to tour in 2020.
Represented by Talentbanq Agency and an award-winning artist, Chute came first in the Coffee Music Project singer-songwriter competition with her song 'London's on Fire' in 2018[26] and her 5 most recent singles are being played in over 600 stores worldwide as the Caffe Nero Artist of the Month.[27]
Melanie Nakhla
Melanie Nakhla (born on 29 December 1988) was born in London. She moved with her family to Shrewsbury, Shropshire when she was three years old, where she attended Prestfelde School. She also attended Shrewsbury High School, until the age of 15. She began singing at a young age, joining the Shrewsbury Children's Choir when she was eight years old.[4] She competed in the Oswestry Eisteddfod when she was ten years old coming first in a singing competition.[28] She was a student at Wycombe Abbey in High Wycombe where she was head of choir.[3][4] She has also appeared at the Royal Opening production of Romany Wood at Severn Theatre in Shrewsbury.
She graduated from University College London with a degree in French and Spanish. She has performed for the Diamond Jubilee in Shropshire. Melanie has worked at London Hotel, The Chiltern Firehouse since 2014 in an executive capacity. She also hosts a popular video blog about pizza.
Charlotte Ritchie
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Main article: Charlotte Ritchie |
Charlotte Ritchie (born 29 August 1989) is an English actress and singer-songwriter. She is known for her roles as Alison Cooper in Ghosts, Oregon in Channel 4 comedy Fresh Meat, Hannah in Siblings, Alison in Dead Pixels, Barbara Gilbert in BBC drama Call the Midwife,[29] and George in Feel Good.
Laura Wright
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Main article: Laura Wright (singer) |
Laura Wright (born 17 June 1990)[30] was a member of All Angels and left the group in 2010.[citation needed]
Rachel Fabri
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Main article: Rachel Fabri (singer) |
Rachel Fabri (born 12 September 1985) was born in Malta, she trained at the Masquerade Theatre Arts School. She also trained privately under the tuition of soprano Gillian Zammit. Rachel is a Psychology graduate from the University of Malta. She later received a master's degree in Musical Theatre at the Guildford School of Acting. She is an actor as well as a singer, singing all kinds of different styles. Rachel Fabri is the newest member of the group, having joined All Angels in July 2010. Fabri's acting roles have included performances at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival as the lead role in 'Persephone', the London Palladium in 'Me and My Girl' and Abdel Akle in the Lee Tamahori film 'The Devil's Double'. In May 2014 Fabri married Andrew Camilleri. She gave birth to their first child in October 2017, a daughter.[31]
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