- On the advice of the original Forces Sweetheart, Dame Vera Lynn, in December 2005 and 2006, she travelled to Iraq to sing to the soldiers for Christmas. On her first visit to Iraq in 2005, when travelling to Shaibah, the largest British base in Southern Iraq, the helicopter she was travelling in was targeted by missiles. Anti-missile flares were deployed and the group landed safely.
- She signed the biggest classical recording deal in history, for $10 million (£5.8 million), with Warner Music. (October 2009)
- Her father, Selwyn, died of lung cancer at age 70 when she was 15. She has remarked on missing him in her album liner notes and has dedicated any award she has received to him.
- After entering a modelling competition, she became the Face of Wales 2000.
- Classical-crossover singer, who was the biggest-selling classical star in the UK in 2004. She is sometimes erroneously referred to as an opera singer but she has never performed in an opera.
- Her previous jobs before becoming a successful singer have included a freelance singing teacher, a tour guide on the London Eye and a model.
- Is a mezzo-soprano.
- She was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2014 Queen's New Years Honours List for her services to Music and to charitable services. She is a singer in London, England.
- Studied Advanced Level Welsh.
- Has two children with her husband Andrew Levitas - a daughter Aaliyah Reign Levitas (b. September 30, 2015) and a son Xander Robert Selwyn Levitas (b. April 2018).
- Studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London.
- Is good friends with ballet dancer Darcey Bussell.
- While chatting with TV presenter and magician Stephen Mulhern at a post-awards show party, she mentioned to him that she'd always had an ambition to have a go at being sawed in half by a magician. This led to Mulhern inviting her to appear on his Saturday Night phone-in game show Magic Numbers (2010), where she acted as his assistant in a performance of Sawing a Woman in Half in which Mulhern and singer Olly Murs sawed her in half inside a see-through box.
- Universal offered her a six-album deal, the most lucrative in the United Kingdom's classical recording history, reportedly worth £1 million. (2004)
- Appearing as a mentor to the celebrity contestants, as well as a judge, on ITV's "Popstar to Operastar". (January 2010)
- Friend of Polly Noble.
- Her son Xander Robert Selwyn was named after his late grandfathers.
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