Fifteen year old singer and Rotary International in Great Britain & Ireland (RIBI) Young Citizen Award winner, Grace O’Malley, has recorded a charity CD with 87 year old Chelsea Pensioner, Denis Shiels. The CD features the pair singing I’ll be Seeing You and Tell my Father, a song based on a letter written home by a British soldier. The CD is being released ahead of Remembrance Sunday and also as a Christmas single.
On Saturday October 26, Grace performed for the Chelsea Pensioners at their home, the Royal Hospital in Chelsea, raising funds for hospital from the event and sale of the CD.
Grace has already raised tens of thousands of pounds with her operatic singing performances for various charities, including her local hospice and the Royal British Legion. She is ultimately aiming to raise a total of one million pounds in aid of good causes.
Grace was originally nominated for an RIBI Young Citizen Award earlier this year by the Rotary Club of Padiham, Lancashire. She became a soprano singing sensation after starting singing lessons at the age of six and was presented with her RIBI Young Citizen award in April this year, at the RIBI annual conference in Harrogate. Grace sang live at the event, which was covered by the BBC news channel.
