Katherine Jenkins

She was born on June 29, 1980 in Wales, England. By age seven, Jenkins' passion for pop music soon gave way to a love of all things classical, whereupon she began taking piano lessons and singing with a local choir. Jenkins attended London's Royal Academy of Music, where she studied advanced level Welsh. While she was still a student, she was almost raped in London by a man who followed her off a bus. The then-19-year-old was reportedly …