Marie is a former Aylesford School girl at Warwick and Big Help Management has been working with her since 2004.

She first came to the attention of Warwickshire audiences after her public singing debut with the TeenIdol training scheme.

Marie recently graduated from Cardiff University after studying music and maths. Then she embarked on a tour in China which was deliberately aimed at a Chinese audience – rather than the ‘ex-pat’ community.

After winning the hearts and minds of the media by singing in Chinese, she appeared on national radio and TV – as well as all the main commercial networks – one of her live TV appearances gained an audience of more than 43 million viewers.

Marie has since signed a publishing deal with UK company Fairwood Music and Big Help Management secured a licensing deal with Beijing based record company KKP.

Her song Believe in Yourself was chosen as the anthem for the International Children’s Games – and has been translated into a number of languages for use at events leading up to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Dutch Van Spall, director of BHM, said: “We prepared Marie for the tour with Chinese lessons – as well as providing a regular live link with Beijing to enable her to work with a Chinese vocal coach in the four months leading up to the tour. KKP provided a ten-piece band – including string players from the China National Orchestra. We continue to communicate with Beijing and Shanghai and exchange ideas, graphics and audio files using SKYPE and other web technology.”

Marie is the only Western contemporary artist to have been permitted by the state to perform inside Beijing’s Forbidden City.

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