Carly Paoli

Classically trained British-Italian mezzo-soprano Carly Paoli effortlessly straddled the line between opera and musical theater, coming almost out of nowhere to see her self-released debut album smash into the U.K. classical charts at number two. The great-niece of Puglian folksinger Luigi Paoli, she was born and brought up in the ancient market town of Mansfield in the heart of England. As a child she fell in love with the classic MGM musicals she saw on TV, and decided from a very young age that she wanted to be a singer. Beginning vocal training at the age of nine, she disc...