FCWA – Joanna Forest

Hello and welcome to future Classic Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on women's radio station the program where we search for the most amazing new female artist on the classical panorama. Today on future Classic Women Awards, we will be talking to Joanna Forrest, one of the most amazing British soprano of the young generation. Joanna shot to fame in 2017 when she became the first independent artist to get straight to number one in the official classical album charts with their debut album, the critically acclaimed record Star Arising was made album of the Week in the Sunday Mirror and received exceptional review in the music national and global press. So, hello, Joanna. Hello. Hi. Hello. So, Joanna, I was very intrigued by your background because you are not only an amazing opera singer, you are a musical theater singer and also from straight theatre. What does it mean, straight theatre? Street theatre, a play with no. With no music, no songs. So that means you're an actress. Yes. So you're an actress, a musical theater that combines both acting and singing and actually an opera singer. Yeah. So how did you become, you know, how did all this happen? Yes. Well, when I was very little, from as long as I can remember, I always knew that I wanted to be an actress. And I begged my parents, please, please could I go to a stage school instead of a normal secondary school. I wanted to go so much and they thought that was quite bizarre because it's not in my family performing at all. I think everyone's like, where does that come from? Why does she want to do that? So we had a deal. If I got in, if I passed the audition to Italia Conti, which was the school I really wanted to go to, then I was allowed to go and I got in and I didn't even. I always knew I really enjoyed singing. I would sing around the house. My parents always say that on very long car journeys, they didn't have the radio on because I would be singing. So I really enjoyed it, but I didn't know whether I was very good at it. But when I started at Italia Conti and we did the. The vocational subjects for half the day and then normal academic classes for the rest of the day, I realized that I loved singing and I really loved the singing lessons and I loved the idea that musical theatre combines the acting and the singing. And I've also really enjoyed just doing straight plays as well. But about four years ago, I suddenly had. Do they call it like an epiphany? When it just occurred to me it's just singing as singing was like my biggest passion out of all of them. It was the One that I really, really loved. And I'd always sang as a character. As a character in a show, not myself. And I wondered whether. What was it like being on a stage? You're not part of a story. You'. You. Yeah. And you're singing to everybody just. Just as yourself. And I just. That's what I wanted to explore and that's what I. That's what I wanted. So I wanted to do absolutely. Such an interesting journey. I mean, from playing characters, to act. Actually wanted to be that character, to want it to be a character of yourself. Yeah. That's fantastic. So how did it. Did you end up then going towards opera as well? Operatic SONG it's crossover. Right. But that's. That's right. Well, I'd always. I always knew that when you're usually sort of categorized a little bit in. In musical theatre, you know, are you soprano? Are you a mezzo soprano? Are you an alto? So I always knew that I was a soprano. I really enjoyed, you know, hitting the high notes and I've always thought if that. I just enjoyed singing whatever I sing. You know, you're like, singing is singing. But I knew for. To really focus on my new direction. I had one to one, you know, classical lessons to really hone the soprano part of my voice to master the instrument. Yeah, absolutely. And I love singing arias and I love singing with an orchestra. It's really exciting. Absolutely. So did you have any special character in the opera that you were thinking, you know, that really drawn you in or an opera singer that made you to love opera? My sort of classical singer who was my inspiration was actually Sarah Brightman. So she's. Yes. I just remember watching her and just thinking that she could do it all, that she could sing anything and act it and emote it. And I just thought she was fabulous. And she was part of my inspiration for wanting to perform and sort of, you know, train and go to Italia Conti. I just thought she was amazing. There are so many fantastic opera singers that are so fabulous. I was lucky enough to see Andrea Pichelli at the OT just the other night and Sumi Jo was his guest soprano. She was just amazing. She was just so fabulous and it's so inspirational when you hear people at the top of their game being so fabulous. It really just. It's so exciting and it's just. It just inspires you to sort of want to do better and just sort of like love your craft even more. Absolutely. Absolutely. Well, so what do you think about opera today then? I've. I've always enjoyed the real the. The songs from opera that have crossed over into everybody's consciousness, like Nessendorma, Omo Babino Caro, something like that. Those are the ones I really enjoy singing and bringing them to life because as a crossover artist, it's something that everybody can relate to and everybody knows them. So that's. That's what I really enjoy. Absolutely. And so I really like to listen to some of your, you know, some of my singing, some of your most operatic singing. What would you like to choose? I'd like to choose, please. Sposa Son Disprezarte, which is the first song from my debut album, Stars Are Rising, which is actually Vivaldi, but we have really got an orchestration that I think is just really exciting and dramatic and very, very different from the original. Fantastic. Okay, then, let's listen to. And this was Sposasundi Sprezzata from Vivaldi sang by Jonna Forest. We will be back after a short break. Welcome to women's radio station, the voice of women worldwide. This is Women's Radio Station. You're listening to Avril Price with Kitchen Sink Spirituality. It's Anna Kennedy talking all things autism. And my guest today is Karen no. Welcome to future Classical Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on women's radio station. Women's Radio Station, we want to hear from you. I listen to women's radio station Women. The possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. Hi, I'm Liz Van Linden, a UK travel consultant for Hazelmere Travel. People come to me as they want unique experiences and a personalised service. This happens from the moment that they inquire till they come back home. I work with luxury tour operators. 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This is a secret theatre in the heart of the West End. Once found, never forgotten. This is where careers ignite, where playwrights take risks, where great actors perform just feet away from the audience. This is where magic happens. We would love you to join our mailing list or become a sponsor or just buy a ticket to one of our shows. The website is www.germanstreettheatre.co.uk. Women's Radio Station is a not for profit community interest company. Supporting women is our passion. We're currently welcoming donations to help towards our costs to keep this important initiative alive. To donate, simply head to our website. Every little will help. 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, we are talking to Joanna Forrest, this amazing actress, singer and opera singer, Joanna. So I was really, really intrigued, you know, talking about your debut album, Rising Stars Are Rising. So can you tell me more about how this, you know, how was to jump straight away to number one and, you know, all the fame that came with it. It's so exciting. So after I decided that it was the. I wanted to focus on the singing. While my husband helped me, we put on a big concert at the Palace Theatre in aid of a charity that I volunteer for called Copperfill, which is a breast cancer awareness charity, which they're just fabulous. And we had an orchestra and I got to sing a duet with Paul Potts, who won Britain's Got Talent. It's amazing and it was just such a brilliant event and I just really felt like I wanted to record something, something, something of really sort of like good quality, something a little bit different. And I sort of felt that a lot of the fabulous albums out there, the sort of classical artist albums are all maybe very similar. So I wondered whether there was something that I could do to broaden out. So along with our fabulous orchestrator, we, we didn't limit ourselves to songs that just had started off in the classical genre. We thought, doesn't matter what genre, they started out as if we like the song, let's put it on the list, which is how we ended up with Slade. How does it feel? We've got a Beatles track on there and David Bowie. David Bowie, exactly. To make it classical chart eligible. There are certain rules, so we couldn't go too mad. And there still had to be a certain amount classical on there, but, you know, we managed to get them in there. And I'm just so delighted and so happy and proud of it. And the response that we got was just so amazing. For it to get to number one in the official classical chart was just the most incredible thing. It really was so exciting. Even now, when I think about it, and it was last year, I still feel really excited. It was just. It was amazing. Well, years passed so fast, isn't it? Oh, gosh, yeah, definitely. So, absolutely. So did you. Did you have, you know, did you bring the album around? Did you do a tour? Yes, I did a tour last. About this time last year, which was really lovely. It's really nice to sing the songs live and to get to speak to people afterwards, and I've really, really enjoyed it. So that's exactly my question. What's the difference between recording an album, you know, doing the. In the recording studio and actually having a performance live? That's such a good question. And I feel like it's really different because when you're performing in front of people, then you are connecting with them and you're telling the story of the song and you're really thinking of your performance. I guess for me, in a recording studio becomes quite technical because you want it to be perfect. I think because it's recorded, it's there forever. When you're performing, it's gone in a flash. And I think people who are watching you remember how you made them feel, rather than judging and sitting there and thinking, well, did you hit that note right? They're there to enjoy themselves and they want to be swept up in it. I think in the recording studio, you want to get it right. So you're. You're a lot more critical, perhaps, of your singing. You do get lots of chances to do it again and again, but it's probably being sort of more judgmental on yourself while still trying to get the same sort of feeling that you're singing live. So I actually think recording is probably a lot harder, even though if it all goes wrong, you can do it again when live. That's it, you're there exposed. It's. I think it's probably a bigger challenge, maybe recording. Now, as a musician myself, would you say you play the piano? I play the piano, yes. For me, you know, music is the. It's my language, is my. To speak to people. Now you have the power as well. To speak to people through normal play where you're just speaking, where you're just acting. Right. So what's the difference? What's your favorite. If you have any favorite apart the fact that you love singing. But is there a different way of conveying your emotion to the audience? Something that can relate between, you know, because the audience for a play are normally different from an audience for a musical theater that are different from an audience for a concert. That's very true. I think with musical theatre, it's very heightened. Is that. Is that the right word? It's. It's usually the. The musicals that I've been in have been very, very directed almost to the fact that, you know, you take four steps over there and then you sit down and then you'll look this way. So a lot of it is very structured. Structured. And especially if it's a musical that's been going for a long time, they, they, they, they. They don't change. They've been directed. And it's, you know, it's even somebody's job to make sure that they don't change and they don't evolve and they don't grow in strange ways. I see. Yeah. You could be rehearsed into a musical maybe without even the other cast members there, because they will know where they'll be standing and where they'll be looking. Oh, wow. Yeah. I think sometimes with plays there's more scope to interaction. Yeah. And be a bit more creative, perhaps. So on this wave, what would you like to listen then? Pure imagination. Oh, pure imagination from Charlie Chocolate Factory. Yes. I love it. Just because, obviously I love musical theater. I love this song. Yes. Let's listen to it. Come with me. And you'll be in a world of people Your imagination Take a look and you'll see into your imagination we'll begin with a spin Traveling in the world of my creation what we'll see will defy explanation. If you want a new paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to do it Want to change the world is enough Nothing to it There is no place I know to compare with your imagination Living there you'll be free if you truly wish to be. Sam, If you want to sing Magic Land Close your eyes and you will see one Want to be a dreamer Be one anytime you please and please save me one. If you truly wish to be. Living there you'll be free if you truly. Wish to be. And this was pure imagination from Charlie's Chocolate Factory, sang by Joanna Forrest. We will be back after a Short break. Women's radio station is a fresh new broadcasting platform driven by love and passion. Connecting women around the world in a global network is all about diversity from opinions, career, ethnicity, education. We aim to show the individuality of every woman everywhere, providing opportunities and a platform for your voice. Women, the possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. 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We're currently welcoming donations to help towards our running costs to keep this important initiative alive. To donate, simply head to our website. Every little will help. Foreign. Classic Women Awards on Women's Radio Station. The program where we search for the most amazing new female artists on the classical panorama Today we're talking to Joanna Forest. Joanna, we were talking about, you know, your amazing new album, debut album being reaching number one and a fantastic career. So. Exactly. That's what I wanted to ask you. What was your most exciting moment in your career? I think it has to be reaching the number one in the official classical chart. How did you know about that? Like someone phone you up and say you're number one or they release the information, the official chart on a Friday at 6 o'. Clock. So Thursday is the cutoff line for anyone who buys anything that week and then Friday they're busy collating and counting I guess and getting all the information together and then at 6 o' clock that's when they, that's when they release all the charts for that week. So we knew we'd done, we knew we'd done quite well on the pre sales but you just don't know. So release week was definitely a whole range of emotions. On the Monday we were number one in the iTunes classical chart which was brilliant and that would have just been like amazing in itself. But then we had those extra days to find out how we'd done in the official chart which is where from where everybody buys something, whether it's like Amazon, HMV, iTunes online, it's like all collated together. So that was really nerve wracking. And so where were you at six o' clock on Friday? Me and my husband were together looking at the laptop, waiting for it to refresh with the charts. They were actually for some reason, some technical reason, just ever so slightly late that day as well. Oh, no way. Yeah. Amazing. Amazing. Okay. And do you have any challenging moment in your career that you can think of? So I think the most challenging probably moment in my career really was. So after I'd been through stage school and then I'd done my. I'd stayed on to do the musical theatre course. I'd already done lots of work while I was there. I'd done a West End show which was just brilliant. And I was then doing a tour called the Best of Broadway that was toured all around Europe and I was a soloist which was really, really exciting. But when I came and everything was looking good, I'd always done very solid, sort of always done well at going to the stage school. I'd always been sort of like been one of the girls that they pushed, just, you know, really lucky. But then when I came back from the tour I actually had some medical problems and I wasn't very well for a while and even at 21 I actually had breast cancer, which sort of took me out of the loop completely, made me feel sort of like, sort of isolated. I lost my confidence for a while when I was going through my treatment, and I wondered how was I going to get back to have the confidence to audition, to stand on a stage and sing in front of people. And you always feel at auditions, you're sort of scrutinized a bit, so you need a bit of sort of courage and steel to do that. And I wondered whether I'd ever, ever get back there. And a lot of my friends were doing, like, amazing, which sort of gave me the sort of confidence somehow to think, I really want to do this, and, you know, you've got to be in it to win it. So after I was, like, completely successfully treated, after I felt better, after I felt like myself again, after I felt like I looked like myself again, I thought, if this is what I want to do, and I won't get to do it if I don't pursue it. So I think that was hard because I think when you've been out of the loop for a while, you sort of just feel like maybe you want to do something else and maybe you just want to hide away. But I always knew if I did that, then I think I definitely feel like I would have looked back with regret, and I would have been sad that I didn't carry on with what I trained to do, with what my. What my passion was. I think I sort of had to. So I think that was probably the most challenging thing. And then it's just sort of made me know that it was worth feeling uncomfortable putting myself out there again to get things like, you know, like the Classical Number one. That is fantastic. Yeah. And that's indeed an argument that I'm very glad you raised, because this program is about not just amazing female musicians, but also, you know, the problem of women having a career, and that can include motherhood or illness or, you know, we had people talking about the MeToo movement, so there is so many aspects of a woman. One is working, and particularly when you're on stage and you. You want to be beautiful. People want to see beautiful, happy, amazing, inspiring artist. And it's an extra challenge. We had another one. She just divorced from her husband, and she had to go on stage and talk about these things on stage casually. It was exactly the same theme of that song. So she was saying that was very hard not to cry on stage. So thank you so much for sharing your experience. That's really, really inspiring and important. To hear. And what's most amazing is that you came back and you are a winner because, you know your album got number one and you have a beautiful career ahead of you. And it's fantastic. It's very, very bringing optimism. Yes. Isn't it? And that's what we want to do with art in general, with music. We want to bring beauty, but also hope and also inspiring people to do as much as they want with their life. Because life is always life, isn't it? Absolutely, yes. So what would you say to an aspiring young student or younger self if you could go back in time? I think I would say be confident. Go for it. Take every opportunity. If someone asks you to sing somewhere, take it. You'll learn something. Every time you perform something different, just believe in yourself and just continue. Even if it feels like it's a huge mountain to climb, just. Just keep going for it. So I would say. Wonderful. Now I'd like to listen another song from your debut album in particular is My Everything by Dani Demirs. Yes. Can you tell us about this song? Yes. I'm the first person to recorded this. It's exciting. It's an original song on the album and it was originally written for a wedding. So it's very romantic. All about love. I love singing it. And that's what we like, isn't it? All right, then. My Everything by Donny Demir sang by Joanna Forrest. I used to find a place to hide away and in my mind I'd think about this day so many steps, steps, so many mountains I have climbed all of them have led me here to you. And through it all when I set my spirit free the the winds of change saw what I just couldn't see I never knew that love could feel like this before no one else could make me feel this way. I give you all my everything you are that wish the one I hoped would someday bring forevermore you'll always be the one who found the way to give me back to me my everything. So here we are. I'm looking at you now a shooting star that landed here somehow I never knew that love could feel like this before. No one else could make me feel this way. I give you all my everything all that wish the one I hoped would someday bring forever you always be the one who found the way to give me life to me my everything. You found a way to give me back to me. My everything. And this was my everything by Donny Demir's Song by Joanna Forrest. We will be back after a short break. Welcome to Women's Radio Station, the voice of women worldwide. This is Women's Radio Station. You're listening to Avril Price with Kitchen Sink Spirituality. It's Anna Kennedy talking all things autism. And my. My guest today is Karen Noel. Welcome to future Classical Women Awards with me, Stefania Passamonte on Women's Radio Station. Women's Radio Station, we want to hear from you. I listen to Women's Radio Station Women. The possibilities are endless. That's what makes us different. 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Our guest today is Joanna Forrest and we've been talking so far about your amazing album and your amazing career. Now it's time, Joanna, of the odd question. So what's your strangest hobby? To free your mind or to relax? Strangest hobby? Yes. Do you have any. Oh, strangest hobby. So I would probably say it's. Well, my husband bought me a piano last Christmas. It's white. It looks really good in the house. But then I thought, I've got to have lessons now. It's gone out this way to find this beautiful piano. I've got to. Got to learn how to use it. Absolutely. So I would say that that's my hobby right now. I go every week. Yes. Do you practice? Are you a good student? Do you know, my doggie, she doesn't really like it when I play the piano. It's really awkward. I think it's because I'm so engrossed in something. She starts to be really naughty. So I sit down at the piano. She wants to jump up on the table. I think she knows she's not going to get any attention. So I have to pracitate when maybe my husband's there or she's asleep like a baby, basically. I know, but it's all about the practice. It makes such a difference. So I feel like. I feel like I'm getting there. All right. I'm enjoying it. Beautiful. Okay. And do you have any superstition or ritual before going on stage? Oh, interesting. I have done in the past. I remember when I did a pantomime, I was Wendy in Peter Pan, and I always had to wear the same T shirt under my nightie underneath the flying harness. Otherwise, I don't know what I thought was gonna happen. But I always wanted to make sure that this. Like, that I had this same T shirt. Okay. I think I got it in my head it would, like, be. It was lucky or something. Okay. And do you have any embarrassing moment that you can tell us, funny moment that happened? Well, one thing that was completely my fault was in a pantomime as Wendy again and Peter Pan. And it was at the Nottingham Theatre Royal. And. And I'd just been caught up, I think, chatting away with my friend Tinkerbell Penny, and all of a sudden had the Act 1 beginners call, which meant I had to get ready really, really quickly. And then I was on stage in the. In the nursery. Peter Pan had come flying in. And I thought, hang on a minute. I just feel. I feel different. What's missing? I've got my microphone. What's different? Then I realized in my hurry, I hadn't put on my fl. Yeah. So I had to run off stage. Had to leave Peter Pan entertaining Michael and John covering for me, telling them all about how wonderful Neverland was going to be, and quickly put the harness on, which actually isn't a quick thing to do because it has to be done properly. Oh, my God. But that's. That was. That wasn't good. One question. How is it to fly on stage? I think the first time I did it, I was probably maybe slightly apprehensive because you're just sort of getting whizzed about on this rope. But I did this same part for quite a few years, for quite a few Christmases. I did Wendy in Peter Pan. Yeah. Because it's fun. And when they ask you back, you just think, oh, it's really Christmassy. And then after. After a while, you just don't think anything of it. You do it twice a day, like seven days a week. Oh, wow. So, yeah, you just don't think anything of it. It becomes completely natural to be swinging about, going, oh, Peter, I can fly. That's such an amazing thing. I mean, not everybody gets to fly, so. That's so true. That's true. And I have flown a lot. At least Wendy doesn't have to look particularly graceful when she flies because she's not meant to be amazing at it, like Peter. But yeah, no, it's fun. Wow. It's fantastic. Okay, so what's your next project or. So the next project is. I've just finished recording my second album, which will be released next March, which is really exciting. I'd love to come back at the time and tell you guys more about it. Yeah, we've recorded it at Angel Studios with the full orchestra again, so we've got this like, amazing sound. So I'm just really, really excited about it. Oh, beautiful. The title. You have a title? I've got a title. I can't reveal it yet because we haven't done the big announcement yet, but when we have, I can let you know. Looking forward to it. So what would you like to play now? The next track I absolutely love. It's David Bowie and it's Life on Mars, which I've always loved. And I'm just so happy it's on the album with this huge orchestral version of a song that definitely did not start out in the classical genre. Absolutely. That's very original. Okay, let's listen to it then. It's a God awful small affair to the girl with the mousy hair but her mommy is yelling no and her daddy has told her to go but her friend is nowhere to be seen now she walks through her sunken dream to the seat with the clearest view and she's hooked to the silver screen that the film is a saddening bore for she's lifted 10 times or more she could spit in the eyes of foes as they ask her to to focus on. Sam. It's on America's tortured brow that Mickey Mouse has grown up a cow now the workers have struck for fame Cause Landon's on sale again See that mice and that million hordes from our Ibiza to the north for commons the river is out of bounds to my mother, my dog and clowns that the film is a saddening ball. Cause I wrote it 10 times or more it's about to be written again As I ask you to focus on. Take a look at that. Life, Sam. And this was Life on Mars by David Bowie, sang by Joanna Forrest from her latest album. So, Joanna, very last question. Who would you dream to sing with? Wow. Well, well, I saw him a couple of nights ago at the O2 and what a dream to sing with Andrea Bocelli. Oh, Andrea Bocelli. Okay. He was so fabulous. It's just a fabulous evening. Yeah, lovely. Absolutely. No, he's, he's a great artist and what is amazing is his contribution to, to younger musician to younger singer. He has a charity he's not mentioning and this, you know, know, giving out a lot to help. That's fantastic. Yeah, that's really beautiful. Wonderful. If you have any question that you would like to ask to our guest or nomination of our future Classic Women awards, please email presentersomensradiostations.com or tweet us @womensradiostn. A big thanks to our guest Joanna for the great chat and the beautiful music played today. Thank you. It was really a pleasure. A big thank to the listeners. If you have been listening to future Classic Women awards on women's radio stations live every day at 10am and 10pm London time. 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