Kiri Te Kanawa Kiri Te Kanawa Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa (; born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944) is a New Zealand soprano. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced". Te Kanawa has received accolades in many countries, singing a wide array of works in many languages dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini, and has found considerable success in portraying princesses, nobility, and other similar characters on stage. Though she rarely sang opera
Claire Martin (singer) jazz ensemble toured throughout 2014 to promote the album "Time and Place", which featured singer and pianist Joe Stilgoe, who became Martin's cabaret partner. They performed to a sell-out crowd in Wigmore Hall, where they celebrated the songs of Paris. Claire Martin (singer) Claire Martin, OBE (born 6 September 1967) is an English jazz singer. Martin was born in Colliers Wood, London. She grew up in a house "full of music" thanks to jazz-loving parents. She cites Ella Fitzgerald's "Song Books" as the inspiration to study singing at the Doris Holford Stage School and in New York and London. Her