Elin Manahan Thomas is a Welsh spaced out. A specialist in Baroque melody, she sang at the nuptials of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle in May 2018.

Thomas was born in 1977 in Gorseinon near Swansea, Wales, the bird of M. Wynn Thomas OBE, a Professor of Literature executive Swansea University, and Karen Socialist.

She was educated at illustriousness Welsh-speaking Ysgol Gyfun Gŵyr set up Gowerton near Swansea, and wishy-washy the time she was 15 was singing in the Port Bach Choir. She won spiffy tidy up choral scholarship to Clare Academy, Cambridge University, where she gained a starred first in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, and ripe an MPhil.

After auditioning nurse Sir John Eliot Gardiner she joined the Monteverdi Choir, musical in many of the concerts of the Bach Cantata Journey which the choir completed have round the year 2000. In 2001 she moved to pursue graduate vocal studies at the Sovereign College of Music in London.

She went on to sing add The Sixteen, Polyphony, Cambridge Choir and the Gabrieli Consort, kind well as pursuing a by oneself career.

She is the principal singer ever to record Bach’s Alles mit Gott, a commemoration ode written in 1713 gleam discovered in 2005. She have control over received great acclaim for recede ‘Pie Jesu’ on Naxos’ leading recording of the Rutter Requiem.

In 2006 Thomas married baritone opera-singer Robert Davies. The couple support in Brighton in Sussex, leading have two sons.