Interview with Laura Wright

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EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH

LAURA WRIGHT

Glamorous soprano Laura Wright has become one of the biggest selling classical artists of our decade and performed at some of the most prestigious venues in the UK. Director of Oracle Magazine Myles Lockwood caught up with Laura to talk about her new EP and her upcoming performance, right here in Plymouth.

When did you first start singing and where did it all begin?

I started singing when I was 15. I did a competition with BBC Radio 2 called ‘Chorister of the Year’ and that was my first experience of performing. I was lucky enough to go on and win the competition and it all spiralled from there really!

Your new EP ‘The Sound of Strength’ was released on 30th June, can you tell us a bit about it?

It is a different style of music to what I have done in the past. It’s a real reflection of myself in a way, as it combines my two passions in life, which are sport and classical music. Over the past few years I have performed at a lot of sporting events and have been made the official anthem singer for the England Rugby. So as a result of that, I wanted to create something very powerful and very empowering, especially to women, which is something I talk about a lot. I think of my body as an instrument in the sense that I train my body just like I train my voice. There’s a video for the new track,

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and it’s all based around the sound of strength. Being strong is beautiful to me and I would really love other women to feel that.

Would you say the new track is the best work you have produced so far?

I think it’s definitely the most honest work I’ve produced. It’s taken me a long time to try and create this sort of music without turning my back on classical, because that’s my first love of music and where I have trained the most. It’s taken a while to find a way through different paths with producers who work in Drum and Base, Trip Hop and Dubstep and all different genres, and bring it together in a way that creates something very powerful and also something quite moving and emotional. I think classical music really has the power to do that.

You mentioned you are passionate about your fitness, which sport do you enjoy the most?

I play Rugby and I’m also really into Cross Fit, which is a crazy new sport that

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