Multi-lingual Melanie, from London, sums up the universal appeal of All Angels by her choice of influences. “My idols are Maria Callas and Ella Fitzgerald,” she says. “Because they both made every song their own every time they sang it.” One of five children who all play instruments, Melanie has played violin from a young age and used to take singing lessons with all her siblings – “just like the Von Trapp family!” She loves romantic composers like Elgar and Debussy but like any teenage girl she enjoys pop as much as classical music: “I like The Kooks and Dirty Pretty Things but I also really enjoy operas like La Boheme and The Marriage Of Figaro, and a bit of dance music too.” She has just completed her AS Levels, has played tennis and netball at county level and is learning to fly a Cessna two-seater plane: “I’ve flown over Jamiroquai’s house – but I haven’t spotted him yet!”  plans to take A-Levels in French, Spanish and Economics next year and is looking forward to a gap year to improve her Spanish further by travelling in South America-and to do some charity work. Well travelled, she already speaks French and Latin, thanks to family members spread all over the globe, and she has toured across Italy as head of her school choir. “There has not been a girl group of young girls like this before,” she says, “so hopefully we will bring something new to the music and not just be another classical group of girls.”