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Jeremy Williams-Chalmers
Arts Correspondent
@jeremydwilliams
3:35 PM 22nd April 2016
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Katherine Jenkins Celebration

 
Since launching her recording career in 2004 with Premier, Katherine Jenkins' output has been rather prolific.

With a new album released annually until she took a break following 2012's This Is Christmas, returning two years later with Home Sweet Home, her crossover appeal has propelled her Classical Pop into the album charts around the world consistently.

Having taken another break to give birth to her first child, Jenkins returns with new collection, Celebration.

Appropriately timed to coincide with HRH Queen Elizabeth II's 90th birthday, Celebration is a joyous collection that includes obvious selections God Save The Queen and Rule Britannia, but also interesting reworkings of Bowie's Heroes and classic I Could Have Danced All Night.

Although Celebration is not groundbreaking material, it was never intended to be. Katherine Jenkins has achieved her status on the global stage by constantly delivering within brand reworkings of songs we all know and love.

Celebration is no different.

While Heroes packs a powerful punch, it is on the stunning Ae Fond Kiss and You'll Never Walk Alone that she makes the biggest impact. While the inclusion of Someone To Watch Over Me, which was popular in the year of the Queen's birth, demonstrates how powerfully timeless music can be.

Celebration does exactly what is says it will. This is not going to win over new fans, but it will delight those that already adore Neath's finest.