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<\/p>\nLead singer of the D-Day Darlings, Katie Ashby, treated GB News viewers to a special rendition of The White Cliffs of Dover ahead of annual Remembrance Sunday commemorations for Britain’s fallen heroes.<\/p>\n
Sitting down with GB News stars’ Stephen Dixon and Anne Diamond, Ms Ashby discussed how much she loved the iconic song, saying that she always feels “very proud” whenever she sings the tune.<\/p>\n
“I think it unites us all. And that’s what I love about these songs, because that’s what they were designed for,” she told the presenters. <\/p>\n
World War Two musical icon Dame Vera Lynn, who is the original singer of The White Cliffs of Dover, was a great inspiration to Ms Ashby.<\/p>\n
The singer said: “We have grown close to Vera and her family over the years, and that’s even more special, really, just the fact that we know her on a personal level.”<\/p>\n
Anne commented: “And you sound a lot like her now. Is that deliberate or is that just luck?” <\/p>\n
Ms Ashby said: “I just fell into it. I haven’t sort of studied her and thought I’ll become a tribute to Vera. <\/p>\n
“It’s not like that. I think there’s just a passion there and a warmth that I think that she has that I just try and carry.”<\/p>\n
Ms Ashby sat down with Stephen and Anne on Remembrance Sunday<\/p>\n
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Anne added: “That little crack in the voice, almost as though she’s sort of very emotional.”<\/p>\n
“It’s the emotion. I think that because it just makes it real. You can hear the heartbreak almost,” Ms Ashby agreed.<\/p>\n
With the D-Day Darlings, the singer explained how their goal is to reach “far and wide” with their message and “touch as many people as [they] can”. <\/p>\n
She said: “So we go out as different lineups, different formats. You know, it could be a nine, could be a three, could be just me on my own. However we can.”<\/p>\n
The singer went on to say that The Royal Albert Hall is the best place where she has performed. <\/p>\n
She said: “Obviously I love performing all over the country at any size venue or whatever the the grandeur of the event, it doesn’t really matter.<\/p>\n
“But there’s something about the Albert Hall that is just beautiful. <\/p>\n
“And the acoustics in there on their own are just stunning, but it’s just the way that you can see everyone because it’s such a grand venue, but it’s so well lit and you can still see everyone, even though they’re tiny and the little box is up there, you still feel like you can connect.<\/p>\n
“As long as I can connect, then I don’t have nerves.<\/p>\n
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The singer took to the stage on Sunday morning to perform live on GB News<\/p>\n
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“I love all music and vintage music particularly, but when there’s such a strong narrative and there is, you know, a real subject matter that’s right at the heart of the songs, that to me just it just really inspired me to do it. <\/p>\n
“And then obviously it evokes conversations with people, which is really important.”<\/p>\n
Ms Ashby even reaches out to younger audiences, with a group called The D-Day Juniors made up of around 60 children which sing old-school classics. <\/p>\n
The women even reach out to current military who are “inspired massively” by the wartime generation, holding them in the “utmost regard”.<\/p>\n
She added: “We do a lot of military events and, you know, it’s just the WWII veterans and WWI and all those great wars. That was to them, they are just their heroes still. So they love that we do this.”<\/p>\n
The D-Day Darlings first received an abundance of fame after they reached the finals of ITV talent show Britain’s Got Talent. <\/p>\n
After, their debut album was sold more than 60,000, as the group became the best-selling female band to come from the ITV show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lead singer of the D-Day Darlings, Katie Ashby, treated GB News viewers to a special rendition of The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253322,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,50,56,54,55,88857],"class_list":["post-253321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-video-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}