LONDON — It’s “girl power” in Britain all over again, but
this time via cassocks and choir music instead of sequins and pop
songs.
Isabel Suckling, 12, has broken an almost exclusively male
singing tradition to become the first choir girl to be signed by
Decca the record label, whose parent company is also home to Lady
Gaga, the Rolling Stones, and Amy Winehouse.
Choir music is taken seriously in Britain, where album sales
boom at Christmas time, viewers were hooked on BBC reality show
“The Choir” and choir soloists have been known to hit the pop
charts. Decca Record Group talent hunters searched cathedral choirs
across the country, seeking to find the most talented U.K. choir
girl to blaze a trail for female voices.
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