Bubbly Scot Daisy began her performing career at 9 as Young Cosette in the touring production of Les Miserables. At the age of 13 she appeared in front of six million television viewers as the young Judy Garland in Stars In Their Eyes Kids, and made the first of many appearances on the Edinburgh Fringe. At 15 she recorded her debut album: she was encouraged by American jazz vocalist Mark Murphy, who compared her voice to a young Barbra Streisand, she hired a pianist, bassist and drummer and recorded her disc of jazz standards, Simply Jazz, in the dining room of her parents’ Edinburgh home. The result impressed jazz veteran Humphrey Lyttleton so much that she became the youngest singer ever to be played on his BBC Radio 2 show.  Daisy now studies at the Purcell School in Bushey, Herts, but her first love remains jazz: “All my life I’ve loved singers like Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and Sarah Vaughan. But I also like listening to indie rock like Snow Patrol, Radiohead, The Killers and Razorlight”. Daisy’s opportunity to join All Angels came when she was singing at the Royal Albert Hall’s School Proms with the Loretto Ensemble last November “I was wearing a kilt, with a chamber ensemble, and I slipped Howard Goodall my CD - because that’s what you do!” Before long Goodall had hired her for his Channel 4 programme, How Music Works, and recommended her to Universal Music for All Angels. “I always knew I wanted to do something musical,” she says. “Singing was always the most important thing to me.” Daisy has also graced the cover of numerous girls’ magazines and books, appeared in several television and radio plays, and worked as a reporter for Newsround, covering the Smash Hits Poll Winners’ Party.

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