Is it right that you’ve sung at the Eurovision Song Contest and with Enrique Iglesias?
Yes! It was about a year later that I did the Eurovision Song Contest and then went on to sing with Enrique Iglesias. I really enjoyed performing with him in the Kremlin and I hope our paths cross again. Since then I’ve had a few albums and toured a lot. It hasn’t stopped, and I hope it won’t stop for a long, long time! [Alsou came second in the 2000 Eurovision Song Contest and her song went on to sell 100,000 copies becoming the biggest selling single of all time in her home country, surpassed only by Alsou’s next single, a duet with Enrique Iglesias.] So, it’s been a bit of a meteoric rise then? Yes, but it was crazy because I was also trying to fit in my studies – doing my A-levels. When did you realise that you had a good singing voice? That’s difficult to say, but it must have been when I was mimicking other artists and friends started asking me to sing. It was all about building my own self confidence because I was a very shy kid and was insecure about everything. When I started
