Books That Made Me<\/a>, she recalled the happy time her family spent in Pembrokeshire this summer, enjoying the coast and having fish and chips on the beach, which Katherine described as “amazing”.<\/p>\nWith her children at school in the US, Jenkins said she makes sure they pull out all the stops on St David’s Day.<\/p>\n
“I go into school, Aaliyah and I dress up as Welsh ladies, I cook the Welsh cakes, and I take in the love spoons,” she said.<\/p>\n
“That’s definitely something that is very, very important to me that they maintain their Welshness.”<\/p>\n
Jenkins said she thought her children may have inherited her love of music and performing. <\/p>\n
She said she can “hear parts of the singing” in her son, even though at the moment, he is having electric guitar lessons because “he wants to be a rock star”.<\/p>\n
Her daughter Aaliyah has a passion for performing and does dance recitals and musical theatre shows.<\/p>\n
“I personally think I wouldn’t be here today without growing up in south Wales, where I had school choirs, church choirs, national choir of Wales, it was my steadfast,” said Jenkins.<\/p>\n
“When you do go and do something outside of Wales, you feel like you have this amazing community behind you, supporting you and cheering you on.<\/p>\n
“That’s why I feel so so proud of where I’m from, why I really want to fly the flag.”<\/p>\n
Jenkins has been juggling motherhood with an international singing career and running her own gin business.<\/p>\n
She said her priority at the moment is her children, even if it means saying no to tempting work opportunities.<\/p>\n
Exports of her Welsh gin, made at a Swansea distillery, have been launched in Dubai, Singapore, Italy, and it will land in the US this autumn. <\/p>\n
Jenkins said it is her drive to fly the flag for Wales that motivates her.<\/p>\n
“I want to educate people about Wales, and I feel a responsibility to do that. <\/p>\n
“So it’s been a passion project for me. It’s like having another baby.”<\/p>\n
Jenkins said her family had always enjoyed a gin, but she was not supposed to drink it because it’s too harsh on the voice.<\/p>\n
“I come from a family of women who loved gin and tonics, so this was mortifying news,” she said.<\/p>\n
So during the pandemic, with her husband, she created a tipple that she could drink without damaging her voice. <\/p>\n
She said working with her husband was “fun”, and they have managed to avoid any arguments.<\/p>\n
Although the gin did make for a funny moment in school when her daughter wrote a project recently about her family.<\/p>\n
“Instead of mentioning anything to do with music or film, she wrote, ‘my mummy and daddy make gin and tonics’.”<\/p>\n
“This went up on the wall in school, I felt like I had to go in and explain, I do do other things as well in our house,” said Jenkins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Singer Katherine Jenkins says it is important her children know what it means to be Welsh. The mezzo-soprano…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":{"0":"post-207163","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}