9:47am Thursday 28th January 2010
By Rachel Wakefield
Young singing star Olivia Aaron has just released a single for The Army Benevolent Fund. She talks to Rachel Wakefield
OLIVIA Aaron is just like any young 13-year-old, full of joie de vivre and “likely to burst in to song at any given opportunity. I just like it so much. I just get this really nice feeling and I really enjoy it.”
Like any teenager she has dreams of making it big one day. Except, this Mill Hill resident probably will as she can actually sing; and she’s proved it.
She impressed everyone at Mill Hill Montessori school at the tender age of three with her rendition of Memory from Cats. Then she followed her second passion and acted in the musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang at the London Palladium for ten months at the age of eight.
Her list of achievements goes on: she beat 3,000 hopefuls auditioning at Brent Cross to play the lead in Annie at the Bloomsbury Theatre last year and has won the lead as Blousey Brown in Bugsy Malone for this year.
She has performed for Dame Vera Lynn at the Imperial War Museum and at the unveiling of the Fourth Plinth at Trafalgar Square. And last December she sang for the Prime Minister’s wife in a charity song for Women’s Aid called Take My Hand.
The maturity of this youngster’s voice was first “discovered” by a local audience at the age of ten when she took part in, and won, a Junior New Faces competition organised by The Variety Club Children’s Charity.
Since then she has been singing to a wider audience through the charity. However, the biggest impact for Olivia was last October when she released her debut single My Angel Friend, in aid of The Army Benevolent Fund (ABF).
“They asked me to sing for their charity,” says Olivia, who is donating 100 per cent of the profits to ABF. “I thought it was such an honour to be asked to sing. I’d like to follow in the footsteps of Dame Vera Lynn,” she adds. “You hear about what the soldiers are up to on the news and I really want to do my bit for the troops. I always want to use my talents to help people, to give them hope and make them smile.”
This single is available on iTunes and Olivia’s next single, to be released later this year, will be a version of Dame Vera’s wartime hit, White Cliffs Of Dover.
Visit www.oliviaofficialsite.com
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