Hi Everyone,

Am really pleased to let you know that I won the BBC Best Vocalist Award 2008. The ceremony was on Monday night at the Mermaid Theatre and it was a great evening with performances from all of the award winners. I thought there was a good broad representation of the music ranging from Fraud to Cleo Laine & Johnny Dankworth, Empirical,Tom Cawley's Curios, Tony Kofi and of course wonderful to hear all these alongside Charlie Haden with John Taylor and Chick Corea's Return to Forever. Guy Barker made a nice arrangement of my song Camille for his big band which included great musicians - Julian Siegel, Sammy Maine, Jim Watson, Phil Donkin, Ralph Salmons and a wonderfully spirited solo from special guest, star violinist Nigel Kennedy.

Thanks to all of you who have supported and encouraged me to make music. Hope to see you at a gig soon. Keep it LIVE

Christine x x x x