Hello and welcome to Future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte. The program where we search for the most amazing new female artist on the classical panorama. Today I'm very excited to reveal the winner of the crossover section of Future classic Women Awards 1st Edition. But before I tell you who she is, I'd like to listen to her first piece of Today interview and let you guess who she must be. When I sat down the street last Sunday feeling quite a low and kind of me Suddenly a voice said go for the neighbors. Spread the picture on a wider screen green on the five side. Neighbour, there's a million reasons why you should be glad in all four seasons Hit the road, neighbour Leave your worries and strife Spread the religion of the rhythm of life. But the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. It's a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet. Rhythm on the inside, rhythm on the street and the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. Oh, the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. Rhythm of years. Your mommy and your daddy jump up on the bed with energy. Change it from the rooftops that you love and p to the universe's memory you will make a new sensation. How a growing congregation Operation hip and love. A light paper, glowing, leaping. Keep the music flowing, keep the rhythm. Go, go, go, go, go, go. You. The star. All the rhythm of life is a powerful beat bits a tingle in your fingers and a tingle in your feet. Rhythm on the inside, rhythm on the street. And the rhythm of life is a powerful beat. To Rhythm of life. To feel the rhythm of life. To feel the powerful beat. To feel the tingling your fingers to feel the tingling up. And with this amazing, fantastic rhythm. I'm happy to say that the winner of Future Classic winner awards crossover section is Joanna Forrest. Good morning, Joanna. What a brilliant way to start our interview. Well, this fantastic song is from the title is actually the title song of your latest release. Yes, it is the Rhythm of Life, my latest album, and that I'm very pleased to see that jumped straight away to the top charts as well. Yes, it did. It was an Amazon bestseller on day of release, which is really exciting. And there's a concept to the album that this is a musical adventure for the whole family. I really wanted to create something that would appeal to younger ears as well and really sort of get children into classical music and. But we've got a concept that it's the day in the life of a child. So each song represents an hour of the day. All right. Okay. Yeah. So like starting off with Take that's Greatest Day. Because who wouldn't want to wake up to take that song and just that, that message that, you know, really, you know, inspiring message that, yes, today's gonna be a brilliant day. And then we go all the way through the day, Till when youn Wish Upon a Star and then Going to Sleep with Claire de L. That's such a fantastic album. I really enjoy listening to it, listening to it and wanted to ask you, I mean, how. When. How do you decide a new album? How do you decide a new concept? How, like, you wake up one morning and you just have this idea, or. Funnily enough, I'd always had this idea that I wanted to do something with an orchestra for children, and I wasn't quite sure what that would be. And so we sort of had to hone the concept. My first thought was maybe something, you know, like an album of maybe beautiful lullabies. Then I thought, no, why don't develop that idea and make it into a song for every hour of the day. And I just think, even though it's a concept album, you can listen to the tracks individually, but I love the idea that you're meant to sort of listen to it from start to finish. Because people don't always do that nowadays, do they? Absolutely. There is this amazing initiative from BPI that is the organization behind the Brits Awards, and they launched the Album Day. They had the first time last year in October, and is going to be from now on every 13th of October. And it's about the album, the concept of having a whole album and not just a single or eps. So, you know, giving the meaning of an album differently than just, you know, with Spotify or whatever, you can just listen a mix of tracks from whatever and you lose the art that is behind building up a full album. Why would you put these songs together and not, you know, releasing 10 or 12 different singles? I agree. I think you're so right. In the world of Spotify or people, you know, having a playlist on shuffle, they're used to just sort of being bombarded with lots of different artists, lots of different genres, and you're right, they just don't listen from start to finish. Yeah. And they. And they lose, really, because there is a meaning behind it. So a song by itself might be as beautiful as you can dream of, but then together with others, it gets completely different power. And yes, the thought that someone has given into the order or the concept of that album, you're right, it gets completely lost, doesn't it? So this is your Second album. Yes, which is really exciting. And your first album was as successful, wasn't it? Yes, yes, yes. It made me be. I made chart history, which is really exciting, by being the first independent artist to, to get to the number one in the official classical chart with a debut as an independent artist, which is really exciting. Amazing. Yeah. So I wanted to ask you, I mean, what did it mean to win then as well the future Classic Women Awards in the Transobe section? Oh, it was just so amazing. I was so excited to even be a finalist and take part in the finalist concert. That was such a lovely night and I met so many lovely people. So, so much talent in that evening. Yeah, it was incredible. And then when people were letting me know that they'd listened to the interview or they'd shared it, I just felt like I was a winner already because of all the wonderful, wonderful support that I got with people saying that they loved the music and they loved the interview and, and it's such a brilliant idea because it's people who had shared it. It then gets to other people who then discover you and you just think it's just. Yeah, no, it's brilliant. So to win is incredible. Yeah. Thank you so much and we're very, very excited for you. But we will be talking about more after a short break. Welcome to women's radio station, I'm Sarah Louise Ryan and welcome to Love Lessons live on women's radio station. Hello and welcome to future Classic Women awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on women's radio station. Hello and welcome to Julie Mae is listening. Hi, this is Anna Kennedy and we're at women's radio station supporting women's well being and we're talking all things autism women. 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Please join me for a brand new show here on women's radio station Its Mother's Hour. If, like me, you're a mum juggling far too many balls and dropping most of them, this is definitely the show for you. We'll examine the highs and lows of motherhood and make sure you laugh out loud as we take on this challenging role together. With spoonfuls of advice, incredible stories. It will be refreshing, honest and funny. Look at being a mum. Hi, I'm Valentina Barbacci and I'm the Executive Director of Media Matters for Women. We're a registered charity operating in Sierra Leone and the Democratic Republic of Congo and we produce and share podcasts via Bluetooth on mobile phones, focusing specifically on women and girls excluded from information due to extreme poverty. We empower those living in rural areas with media that transforms how they access, own and share information. 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Is that part of the job, if you like, or it's just something that naturally becomes, you know, I would say that this is my first competition. So cool. Yes. It's amazing that I won. It's so exciting. And I think you're probably right. It must be part of the job that these things come up to enter into. And I think they're such a brilliant idea for everybody who enters to raise the profiles and show what you can do. So, yeah, I think these type of things are brilliant and it's brilliant that you organized it. Now, in general, what I'm thinking is when you do a competition for other instruments. For example, for me, I'm a pianist but I've been talking about opera singers as well. And of course crossover competition. I think it's part of the everyday life. It's natural that you have to. That you're competing against others. But in my mind I always think that everybody's so unique. That is really not much about competing, about showing that you are the best. But it's more about showing that we're all different and getting people to notice you more than actually winning. Then of course there is the plus of winning, isn't it? Yeah, no, I completely agree. It's like a showcase, isn't it? Exactly. Everybody. Yeah. Yes, I can imagine in some sort of genres of, you know, instruments there can be quite serious competition where the stakes are high and it's a bit more like a feeling of an exam, I guess. Exactly. Yeah, yeah. But for singers, I mean, you are lucky that everybody has a different voice somehow. Of course, everybody is so individual that it would be very difficult to gauge that. Yeah. So, you know, there are people that they really get the nerves out of competing and that then comes when they go on stage. Do you ever have nerves before going on stage? Have you ever been scared or. I think it depends on the situation. I think if I was in the situation where it was a competition, I think, yeah, I feel like that would be fairly nerve wracking, like an audition, I guess. But for me to not feel the nerves, I have to feel very prepared. That is the key. Sometimes, however, it's circumstances beyond your control that you might not feel very prepared. There might not be a lot of opportunity maybe to have, say rehearsed with the orchestra or there might be something technically going on that you don't have access to maybe the stage until you're actually gonna do it and you know, those type of things. Or maybe the sound check was super quick and the sound check was for maybe the technical staff, not for you. And you sort of have to just trust in them. So I think there's an element of what I've sort of realized about sort of singing in a concert setup as opposed to a show which was sort of my background musical theatre is you rehearse for so long and you have like maybe a whole week of a technical rehearsal until everything is perfect. Whereas being a singer in a sort of, you know, in a one day thing where part of being professional is just having the confidence to turn up and say, I'm just going to see what happens, you know, I've learned everything to the best of my ability. I'm just going to trust that this is going to be okay and look confident whatever happens. Absolutely. Just go with it. Absolutely, yeah. Now, I was just recently at a concert. I'm not going to say who was performing, but she was one of the legend in classical music. Wow. And she totally had a lack of memory when she was performing with the orchestra. And she kept going, you know, and no one noticed. And they were all standing up and getting the standing ovation. I mean, she, she was musically, you know, fantastic and charming and everything. So, I mean, part of the concert is not really much about how perfect you are on stage, but more about what are you giving to the. The audience, of course, because the audience will remember how they feel and how you made them feel and whether they enjoyed it. I think that's the other thing I think say, you know, we were talking about, you know, competing and maybe in a competition environment, audiences aren't like that. They just want to enjoy it. That's why they've come. That's absolutely true. You know, say if you were absolutely technically perfect, but you didn't move them, it still you. That's not really maybe what they want. And like you say, they would prefer to see a performer really giving everything they vulnerable as well, you know, not being necessarily Wonder Woman or. Yeah, absolutely, definitely. And a lot of the time, like the artist you saw, if you just sort of breeze over it, then, you know, and don't highlight it, maybe they won't know unless you're unlucky and they absolutely know what you're singing inside out, back to front. But then does that make it more interesting? Yeah. Now, I know that this album, you have the dream of performing it with children, four children, not just. So it's a beautiful album for the whole family, but in particular you have this desire of giving of a gift of classical music to children. And you performed already that in front of children. Yeah. How different it is to perform in. In front of a normal audience of, you know, grown up in a theater and actually performing for children. Is that more challenging or. Yeah, I think it's so. Because I really wanted to bring this sort of straight to the children's ears. So far I've performed this actually in schools and so it's actually been quite interactive, which seems to really work. I don't know how that would work in more of a sort of maybe like a theater environment. But because I was very close to them, it was very easy to make it interactive and Play some games with them. That's a very good point. Yeah. Being near to the audience instead of being on stage, like on the pedestal, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. And it meant that we could play some games and, you know, if I asked them questions for them to shout out, I could hear them and they felt really, really involved and, yeah, they really enjoyed it. It was really fun. Do you remember any challenging question that you might have had from the children? Well, it was. It was more things like, say, for example, food, glorious food is on my album. So I was asking them to really listen out and try and remember all the different types of food that I. I would sing about. And so after he's like, you know, what foods have you. You know, have you. Have you remembered? It's just when it's totally fine food that you haven't sung about at all. I think they were dreaming you were talking about this food. Probably you sort of have to go. You don't want to go. I totally didn't sing about that. Yeah, that's a good one. What? The things they come out with. It's very sweet, though. Oh, that's very cute. Now, one question. You know, we asked you to keep the secret so we could reveal today that you were the winner. How hard was to keep the secret that you won hard to keep the secret. I'm not very good at secrets anyway. Right, so you did that. Very good. Very good. Okay, Fantastic. Beautiful. Now, the next song you we're going to listen to is Because We Believe. Yes. Featuring Paul Potts with the Art Symphony Orchestra. What is this song about? What do you believe? What is this? Because We Believe. It's a song actually written by Andrea Bocelli. Ah. Who I absolutely love. All right. And this song is just sort of is just all about believing in yourself. Anything is possible. And I think that is a brilliant thing for all of us to think a bit more in life, isn't it, really? And to sing with Paul was so lovely. He's just got such a beautiful, beautiful voice. And I feel so lucky that that beautiful voice is on my album and that I'm singing with him, which is just fantastic. And I feel like Paul's story of winning Britain's Got Talent, having this amazing gift and working at the car firm warehouse, and then believing in himself enough to enter the competition and then win the competition is sort of what this song is about, isn't it, really? Yeah, absolutely. That you need to follow your dreams and if you really believe in it, and of course you have the talent as well. Definitely. There is a way of winning. Yeah. Beautiful. Then let's listen to Because We Believe. Recorded I. Once in every heart there comes a time. Walk out alone and into the light Come open to. Death we close our eyes. 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For more information on how you can sponsor a show, go to womensradiostation.com women the possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. Welcome back to Future Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station, the program where we search for the most amazing new female artist on the classical panorama. Today, our guest is the winner of the crossover section of Future Classic Women Awards, Joanna Forrest. Joanna, we were talking about the album and for this part of the interview, actually, you chose a song that is out of your album. It's your very first single, I think. That's right. That is a song by Olga Thomas, the Royal Platinum Love Song. Can you tell us more about this song? How did it start, this collaboration? And I'm always interested, you know, when there is two women getting together and producing something as beautiful as this song. Oh, well, Olga Thomas is the most wonderful composer. She writes such beautiful things and I think that's because she's literally a beautiful person. So I think beautiful music comes out of her. And she actually composes pieces of music and songs for the. For the royal family. And each time a big event happens in the royal household, Olga composes either a song or a piece of music for them. And those pieces of music are gifts to the royal family to commemorate their sort of like landmark occasions. And she asked me to sing her brilliant song, Royal Platinum Love Song with tenor Daniel Cook. That was for the Queen and Prince Philip's 70th wedding anniversary. It's such a beautiful song and it was such an honour to be involved with it. You know, a gift to the royal family. It's amazing. And it got to number one in the iTunes classical singles chart. And Daniel Cook, such a beautiful voice. He was the. He was the youngest Jean Valjean in the West End in Les Mis. Oh, wow. Yeah. So we had a brilliant day at Angel Studios recording it. And Olga, check out Olga Thomas's compositions because they are absolutely beautiful. Me and Daniel also recorded A Christmas song for her as well, which was brilliant. And it's. It's just lovely to work with lovely, talented people. Absolutely. So you talked about the musical. Do you prefer to sing in the musical or do you prefer to sing in concert? I think singing is me in a concert. I think I'm really pleased. I've done musicals because they are lots of fun and I've met some best friends for life. And you have the most fun times, especially if you're doing a show for a year or something. Oh, wow. Yeah. Just to sort of, you know, keep things fresh. Sometimes, really comedy things happen. So I've got, like, happy memories of any musical that I've done. But, yeah, I love singing as myself. Being able to choose what you sing. Yeah. Rather than as singing in the context of a show and as a character, you're you. And I feel like this is. Yeah. What I'm about right now. Actually, I'm very curious. Which one was your favorite role in the musical? Because normally I ask this question for the opera, but I didn't ask it yet for music. So that's something we should explore. Yeah. I think there's been some sort of, I suppose, some standout moments. One role that I really liked wasn't a musical, it was a play. And it was in Alan Aykborn's Game Plan, which is two young girls are the main parts. And it was really lovely because it was part of the Margate Theatre Royal summer rep season. And it's really nice when you meet some actors and then you come back and you're asked to do the same play a few years later with the same cast, almost. Yeah. And what was. What was really nice about that is because these two girls are like bestie friendies. But actually, I'd stayed so in touch with my lovely friend Catherine that when we came to do it again, it just felt even more natural because we let you know you genuinely are friends. Another role that stands out just because I did it loads of times, is Wendy and Peter Pan. Yep. Thirteen Christmases. Wow. That's a lot of flights to Neverland. Oh, wow. But that was always fun. Panto is fun. It's fun. It's hard work, but it really is fun because there's. It's, you know. You know, talking about before, we were talking about, you know, the pressure sometimes could things go wrong. People love it in a panto is something goes wrong, has to go wrong. Exactly. They love it. They'll be like, I was there the day when you didn't fly because Something was wrong. There's all these things, they just really like it. So the whole thing is just really like sometimes doing a panto you feel like, wow, that was fun. And like this is a job. Absolutely. And is there a role that you just didn't want to do and you had to do? Well, I was wondering how it would work out being a little boy for a year. Dr. Do the musical playing Tommy Stubbins. So Tommy was a main part. However, he was a 10 year old boy, so not very glamorous. And I remember it was a Bill Cameron production. Him saying to me that he might actually. Was he going to get a boy? But then he'd have to because it's a child. They have to get a different one in each venue you go to and rehearse them in. You can't tour a child. No. So he was thinking, should I get an adult? He can play a child. That was his thinking. Okay. Yeah. And he don't look like a boy. How did he do that? Well, he asked me whether I'd be willing to cut my hair and I said of course, of course. And I totally forgot about it until it was the dress rehearsal and the wickmistress came with the scissors and she's like, right, I'm gonna cut your hair now. And I was like, oh yeah. I said I'd cut my hair and then I didn't want to. I really didn't want to. Suddenly I got the fear. I was like, no, no, no. And so I had to go to the director and go, please don't make me come. I changed my mind. Oh my God. I know, it's fine. The wig's mistress was amazing. She suddenly got me a wig that was like a 10 year old boy wig. Wow. Yeah. And so, yes, I was a 10 year old boy for a whole year. He went on the adventure with Dr. Dolittle and Matthew Muggins to find the great pink giant sea snail. Okay. It's very uncomfortable, isn't it, to wear a wig? Yeah, well, no, it was a very short wig. So it was quite light. I don't think my hair would have gone how they thought it would have done anyway if they cut it really short. You have this beautiful. I think it would have been difficult to have kept it tame. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely. And okay, so now we should probably go and listen to your new song. So Olga Thomas, the Royal Platinum song. And that's featuring Daniel Cook. Yes. Sa. Two characters today who nearer dearer grow to share every scene on tune to people in A play so glad to be together in you. Regret Even. The day lights up. And the. And. Rising. Here with. Sam. Ra. 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Which dog do you have? She's very cute. She's a cavapuchon. So that isn't actually an official breed, but it means that she is. Her dad was a miniature poodle, toy poodle. And the mum was a cavachon, which is a King Charles cavalier mixed with a bichon. All right, so that means she's super fluffy, super cute. She is adorable. What's her name? Evie. Evie. Evie's very cute and we live in the forest, so it means that we've got like the perfect places to walk her. And she loves, she loves a walk. So that's always a nice thing to do. Absolutely. Do you miss it when you go out for concerts? Yeah, we went to New York recently, me and my husband, which was amazing. It was so brilliant. But yeah, there's always like, oh, the dog sitter sent a picture or the dog sitter sent a little video and it's like, there she is. Beautiful. Yeah. Okay, so do you have a, any ritual or superstition before going on stage? Well, I really try and sort of maybe stay away from that in the past. Maybe I've sort of had a few things, but I think that can just like spiral into disaster because if you, for example, had a ritual or something you always wanted to wear and then for some reason something went wrong, you lost it, you didn't get a chance to do something, you might then feel like your performance is going to be affected for the worse. Yeah. And it's sort of in your head. Absolutely. Yeah. That's a very good way of thinking. I think so. Yeah. I think, you know, in the past maybe I've had like a favorite T shirt or something like whatever, like to wear under a costume. But I just think no, because, yeah, I think that can definitely lead to disaster. Just in case something goes wrong and you. And, and, and you lose your special mascot. Absolutely. And do you have any funny or embarrassing moment that you get a Call happening. Calling on stage or. Well, I was in a play at the Strand Theatre. This just shows how long ago it was, because now it's called the Novello Theatre, isn't it? It was the Strand Theatre, and I was in a play written by Michael Palin, and it was called the Weeknd. And it was about, like, a family over a weekend and all the sort of, like, arguments that you can have and, you know, just. You know, just a typical family. It was a comedy. It had Richard Wilson in it from One Foot in the Grave. And my character was the granddaughter. Okay. And I had a prop that was a dog, and I didn't have my own dog at this point in my life. I didn't really have much experiences with dogs, and I sort of always felt like this dog maybe didn't really like me or wasn't very comfortable with me, but that's probably because I wasn't interacting with it in the right way. So it was a real dog. It was a real dog. I thought, you know, saying a prop, it was like, no, she was a real dog. Oh, my gosh. Yeah. Okay. Pippa, the dog, she was from Battersea Dogs Home, and one of the assistants, stage managers, was going to look after her when the show finished, which was lovely. But no one sort of showed me how to look. Like, I loved this dog. And this dog was always sort of, like, wriggling and, like, I was sort of told, like, pick her up and love her and everything. Then one time she just jumped out of my arms, and then she went off the stage, and then she was just, like, running about the audience. And. And I just thought, I just, like, carried on, but I was thinking, oh, no, how awful. Absolute disaster. And you just try and block things out like that. But actually, my husband has read Michael Palin's autobiography. I think he's got several. But in one of his sort of chapters or editions, he even mentions that I dropped the dog and give her the dog. That's what he remembers. Oh, my God. I know. That's very funny. You know, too really late. So for the generation to come, they will know. I know they'll know that I wasn't very good with the dog. Now I'd be amazing. Now I have my own dog. I feel like I would literally. You should go back and do it again. I would nail looking like, I love a dog. But at the time, I think I was a bit. Didn't know what I was doing. Fantastic. Now, the last song of today is if I Rule the World from your latest release. Would you tell us something about this song? So this is from a musical Pickwick and Harry Secombe made it a big hit, but our version is slightly different and I I love the sort of the, the sentiment behind this song and in terms of it being in the context of our concept for the album, this would be the moment, you know, when a child is just saying, you know, oh, I want to be an astronaut, I want to be prime minister, or, you know, and they just feel like they can absolutely do anything that they want. And that's what I feel this song is about. And I think it's really uplifting and I just hope that the listener will feel uplifted when they hear it. Definitely. So let's listen to ifaero the world. Every day would be the first day of spring Every heart would have a new song to sing all the joy every morning would bring if I rode the world Every every man would be as free as a bird Every voice would be a voice to be heard we would treasure each day that occurred My world would be a beautiful place where we would we such wonderful dream Feels. Like the man in the moon has. Every man would say the world was his friend There'd be happiness that no man could end Know my friend not if I rode a W Every head would be held up high There'd be sunshine in everyone's sky the day ever dawned when I. And this was if I Ruled the world with Joanna Forest and the Arts Symphonic Orchestra. 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