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The 33-year-old received the OBE in The New Year’s Honours list
for 2014 for her services to music and charitable services.
However, this is not the first award for the popular singer. Two of
the ten studio albums released since her debut in 2004 have won a
Classic Brit Award for Album of the Year. She has also sung at a
number of television and sporting events and, in 2012, she competed
on the television show Dancing with the Stars, where
she placed second.
Katherine Jenkins first sang in front of The Queen at the Royal
Variety Performance in 2005, and subsequently at the Royal British
Legion Festival of Remembrance at Royal Albert Hall in 2006 and
2007. She also performed at the first and only open-air concert
hosted at Balmoral in 2006 to celebrate Her Majesty’s 80th
birthday.
Perhaps her most notable royal role was in the Diamond Jubilee
celebrations in 2012 when she sang the National Anthem at the Epsom
Derby.
Miss Jenkins, who is well known for her work with the British Armed
Forces, is a patron of the British Forces Foundation. On multiple
occasions, she has flown out to entertain the British troops in
Afghanistan and Iraq. Most recently, she held a concert at Camp
Bastion, the main British military base in Afghanistan in
November. In addition to that, she ran the London Marathon in
2013, and was able to raise £25,000 for a cancer charity.
After having the honour bestowed upon her, Katherine said, “I
am incredibly humbled to receive this great honour. To accept such
an award after only a decade of service to music and charity comes
as a wonderful surprise. I share this award with the
charitable bodies I am so privileged to work with, especially to
those brave servicemen and women who risk so much for us all on a
daily basis.”
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