Who is Karen Harding? From Consett to Miss Philippines to FA Cup final singer
Consett beauty queen Karen is no stranger to the limelight - although her big moment at Saturday's cup final didn't quite go to plan
Consett songstress Karen Harding’s performance of the national anthem at the FA Cup final went viral after she missed her cue in front of the biggest audience of her life.
The 23-year-old is no stranger to the limelight and has been working on her singing career since she was just 16.
The Durham-born singer was a pupil at Moorside Community Technology College and used to work at her parent’s Taste of the Orient shop on Chester Road in Sunderland.
In 2007, when Karen was 16, she took home the Miss Philippines International UK title, winning a once-in-a-lifetime trip to her mother’s home country.
Karen was first spotted at The Sage Gateshead, when she won the North East Anti-Bullying Alliance Song Competition in 2006, performing an original song.
In 2008 the teenage singer won her first management deal after wowing celebrity judges and beating off competition from 3,000 other hopefuls winning the Teenage Cancer Trust’s Music Means Life Competition.
A couple of years later her quest for stardom put Karen on our TV screens as she belted out a Kylie Minogue tune on BBC One’s Your County Needs You, in an attempt to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest.
Despite losing out in the penultimate round, the singer was not put off TV talent shows and auditioned for the X Factor in 2013 when she was cruelly axed during the ITV show’s cut-throat six-chair challenge.
The same year the curly-haired stunner made the final of the Miss Newcastle competition.
But it was last year when the beauty queen singer had her big breakthrough, scoring a top 10 hit with ‘Say Something’ - a collaboration with in-demand producer MNEK.
Her performance at Saturday’s FA Cup final in front of an 90,000 crowd was her biggest gig to date, but despite her blunder Karen has remained decidedly upbeat.
She tweeted afterwards: “OMG. Biggest audience in my life and I got technical difficulties. Soo sorry guys!” and posted a video of her pitch perfect rehearsal on Facebook, commenting #thisishowitshouldhavesounded.
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