Eve:How did you like your American tour with Julie Andrews?
Charlotte: It was really really cool! It was hard work 'cos there were so many dates. There were loads of performances in a short length of time, but it was wicked 'cos we got to travel to loads of places in America and Canada. And Julie Andrews is lovely. She’s such a lady, she's more polite than the Queen, its mad! It was really nice. The best thing about it was I got to take my friends, I took a different friend each week cos I was out there three weeks and we went shopping. We did loads of shopping, I got all my Christmas presents. And Canada is really cheap. Everyone should go to Canada - it's really cheap!

Sean: What are the advantages and disadvantages of being famous?
Charlotte: The advantages are obviously the money that you get, the places you get to travel to and to meet so many people - really, really interesting people. Getting to meet famous people of course, people you really admire. Getting free clothes, getting your hair and make-up done all the time, that's really cool.
But then the disadvantages are just kind of like, it's a LOT of pressure. And you have a a lot of responsibility because you know there’s a lot of people working round you, and so their jobs depend on you. So it's quite a lot of responsibility and stuff like that. And then of course there’s always the press and that can be quite stressful but I’ve learned to ignore it now, but apart from that its cool.
And it is all about business. You know it's all about selling records and so people are quite nice to your face but treat you so diffferently behind your back. It's just harsh, it's a harsh industry to be in, the music business, so yeah, it does make you grow up quite quick. It's made me a little bit more cynical.

Monkey: Your reputation as an operatic singer, will it help or hinder your future music career?
Charlotte: I think it’ll help in terms of people know that I can sing, and I’m not miming all the time or whatever - but I think it’ll hinder in a way that people stereotype. When I was twelve, or fourteen, and dressed really conservatively and would just sing the celtic songs and the classical songs. I think people will think that it's so different that I wouldn’t have any other voices. So I think it can help and hinder me. But it has helped me a lot, having the proper training.

Fiz: Do you think you would ever release a single combining opera with hip hop?
Charlotte: I think it’d be really cool, and there has been one that I’ve heard with a rapper on it with this Opera woman singing over the top and it sounded really beautiful, really gorgeous. And you know I love R & B and hip hop at heart, you know thats what all me and my friends listen to. So yeah, it would be kinda cool...yeah, maybe.
We kind of did that when I sang the duet with Wyclef, 'cos I sang a song called 'Summertime' and he was playing spanish guitar, and there was a hip hop beat behind it. I made my voice half classical and half R & B and it was just a really mad infusion of all these different musical things happening. It was really cool.