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Artist
Claudia Valentina
12+ albums
poprnbbritishGuernsey
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Claudia Valentina (Born - Claudia Cooney), a 24-year-old pop superstar, has all bases covered and she’s leapt over those first stages of music industry to become an artist with the skills to win over those who dare to doubt her. Prepare yourself: she is pop's dominant, confident new force. A dot in the sea between England and France, Guernsey is an unusual birthplace of a popstar, but at the turn of the century, this is where the story of Claudia Valentina begins. A "millennium baby," she was raised in the quaint surroundings of lush greenery and seaside -- doing outdoors things -- but inside she was living and breathing pop culture. “It was a normal life,” she says, “but I was doing full time theatre – singing dancing and acting -- after school and every weekend.” At age 10, having spotted an advert for young stars looking to make their West End debut, she travelled to London and auditioned for a part in Billy Elliot: “That was the last part of my normal life,” she says. Within three months she was living in a dream: busying about London and performing to audiences in the West End for a living, attending Sylvia Young Theatre School on the side. Having spent a year there, by that point she'd caught the bug. The idea of going back to Guernsey, school life and normality was the last thing on her mind. “I was doing what felt like the best thing in the world,” she says. So she escaped, and was lucky enough to live out the fantasy most kids her age dreamt of. At the age of 12, s
