English soprano singer Lesley Garrett preforms at Clonard Monastery in west Belfast in 2012. Garrett was born in the town of Tho
English soprano singer Lesley Garrett preforms at Clonard Monastery in west Belfast in 2012. Garrett was born in the town of Thorne, near Doncaster, South Yorkshire into a musical family. She attended Thorne Fieldside Infant and Junior Schools and Thorne Grammar School, where she performed in school plays and musicals and passed 10 O-levels and an A-level in music. As she grew up she inherited her family's love of music. Her grandfather Colin Wall was a classical pianist; her father Derek worked as a railway signalman and then as a schoolteacher at Hatfield Woodhouse Primary School, eventually going on to become a headmaster. They lived nearby just south of the village; her mother Margaret (née Wall) was a talented singing seamstress and became the school secretary at Lesley's primary school. She has two sisters, Jill and Kay, one step-sister, Louise, and two step-brothers, Robert and Nicholas. When Lesley was 17 she washed dishes at the officers' mess at nearby RAF Lindholme as a summer job. While a student at the Royal Academy of Music she worked as a life model, something of which she is still proud
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