By the age of 17 she had convinced her parents to transfer her into the British schooling system, this time attending Ardingly College, a British Boarding school in West Sussex, so she could study Performing Arts. It would be here that Cartañá would start developing her performance skills through theatre studies, speech and drama lessons, and an acting course with LAMDA, as well as forming the school's first gospel choir who, in their spare time, practiced songs such as Whitney Houston's version of "Jesus Loves Me" and mimicking En Vogue's "Does Anybody Hear Me".
At 17, she had successfully convinced her parents to switch her into the British educational system, allowing her to attend Ardingly College in West Sussex, where she could study Performing Arts. It was here that Cartañá would develop her performance skills through theatre studies, speech and drama classes, an acting course with LAMDA, as well as forming the school's first gospel choir, which rehearsed songs like Whitney Houston's "Jesus Loves Me" and En Vogue's "Does Anybody Hear Me".